Labraunda is located 14 km from the modern town of Milas, in southwestern Turkey.  The earliest evidence for the cult of Zeus Labraundos dates to the middle of the 7th century BC.  The cult statue of Zeus Labraundos was, according to a surviving inscription, a gift bestowed by Hecatomnus, the founder of the Hekatomnid dynasty of Karian satraps. This statue was a standing Zeus with a tall lotus-tipped scepter upright in his left hand and a double-headed axe, a labrys, over his right shoulder.  Most of the monumental marble buildings at the site were erected by in the 4th century BC.  The famous Maussollos is among these.  The origin of the cult of the god of the double axe goes back to the worship of Tarhunt, the Hittite god of Heaven.