Student Reader's History Notes » Karia http://history.studentreader.com Just another Student Reader weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:09:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mausoleum at Halikarnassos http://history.studentreader.com/mausoleum-at-halikarnassos http://history.studentreader.com/mausoleum-at-halikarnassos#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:52:13 +0000 Levi Clancy http://history.studentreader.com/?p=3380 The Mausoleum at Halikarnassos was the tomb of Karian governor Maussolos, serving as the etymological root of the modern word for a monumental tomb. The Mausoleum was designed by Pytheos and Satyros. Mausollos may have overseen its early construction but died before its completion. Its construction continued until (perhaps after) his sister-wife Artemisia’s death in 351 BC.

Roman writer Pliny the Elder described the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos as having a peristyle of 36 columns and a stepped pyramid roof crowned with a marble quadriga, giving the structure a height of 140ft. The high podium is a Lykian aesthetic; the pyramid an Egyptian style; and the overall design Ionian Greek.

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