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1,143 and 1,148 3 , an older almost quadrangular naiskos has been discovered.It belongs to the same period as the fortified Carian settlement and has beendestroyed together with it about 600 B.C. After a gap of 30 or 40 years, thePanionion, the central cult place of the Ionian League, has been erected on thespot.Since a preliminary report, published in May 2008 4 , gives ample detail ofthe first two campaigns, the authors wish to confine themselves here to thenew results and additional information provided by the 3rd campaign.The third campaign started on August 27th and lasted until the 26th ofSeptember. Participants were besides the authors also A. Busching, J. Hartung,L. Kolla, Dr. H. Marg and Ö. Özgül. D. and N. Gansera (Cologne) tookmarvellous aerial photographs of the excavation by means of a kite for whichwe wish to express our sincere gratitude. We also enjoyed the company andhelp of Zeynep Örnek and Salih Yıldırım as representatives of the Museum ofAydın. To its director Emin Yener we wish to express our sincere thanks forhis magnificent help and his constant support.The younger temple, i.e. the archaic Panionion, displays a rather unique plan(Fig. 1): It combines a pronaos with eight columns in two rows with an almostquadrangular cella or naos of 8,6 x 7,6 m. and a large gathering hall or lesche.The latter could be entered through a double-leaf door excentrically placed inthe southern wall of the lesche. Three columns along the longitudinal axis ofthe room supported the wooden roof beams. Such a hybrid combination of atemple with a lesche is unique in the archaic Greek architecture. Especiallythis gathering hall forms (among others) a so far not invalidated argumentthat the temple at Mt. Çatallar tepe was the archaic Panionion in the Mycale.3 The critique of this identification offered by A. Herda, IstMitt 56, 2006, p. 43-102 has to berejected because of its purely speculative character. Herda also does not take into account,that the remains on Otomatik tepe at Güzelçamlı can by no means be identified as the archaicPanionion, but only represent the futile attempt to revive the cult of Poseidon Helikoniosthere at the end of the 4th cent. B.C. Likewise it can be excluded that the Carian fortificationon Kale tepe west of Güzelçamlı, dated to the 7th cent. B.C., represents the powerful Carianvillage of Melia, whose territory extended north as far as Kuşadası and west to Dip Burnu,ancient Trogilion, since no traces of any living quarters have been observed there during theexcavation by G. Kleiner and P. Hommel in the late 1950th. The site is also completely lackingany water supply.4 H. Lohmann — H. Büsing — F. Hulek — G. Kalaitzoglou — G. Lüdorf — M. Müllenhoff— Ph. Niewöhner, Forschungen und Ausgrabungen in der Mykale 2001 – 2006, IstanbulerMitteilungen 57, 2007, p. 59-178 fig. 1-57.190