Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Muğla, Bodrum · Museum
Photo: FollowingHadrian · CC BY-SA 4.0
Catalogue label
- Type
- Ancient city
- Kind
- Museum
- Province / district
- Muğla / Bodrum
- Elevation
- 14 m
- Wikidata
- Q45368
About
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey]]) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros of Paros and Pythius of Priene. Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument.
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