Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Somewhere around 353 and 350 B.C., the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, which would get to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was raised in what is presently the city of Bodrum situated in southeastern Turkey. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was composed as a tomb for Mausolus, who was a satrap or legislative leader of the district. The tomb was requested to be built by Artemisia, for her significant other upon his passing in 353 B.C. Mausolus and Artemisia II of Caria were a couple, and in addition sibling and sister and they had ruled the connecting locales from Halicarnassus for a time of twenty four years. The convention of kin marriage was regular in Caria and was fundamentally a methodology for keeping matchless quality and success in the family. Upon the demise of Mausolus, Artemisia was said to be so fixed by his passing that she consolidated his fiery debris with water and drank them. She then requested the dazzling tomb raised in his memory. The superb tomb soon turned out to be so surely understood that his name turned into the premise for the word catacomb.

Roosted on a slope viewing over the city of Halicarnassus, the tomb was inside a patio. Made totally out of white marble, the colossal sepulcher is accepted to have achieved a tallness of 148 feet. Greek engineers, Satyros and Pythis are credited with planning the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus which incorporated a mixing of Lycian, Greek and Egyptian compositional components. The base of three quadrilateral layers was a base of steps sixty feet long. The strides were protected by stone lions. The center layer was comprised of thirty six Ionic segments roofed with a pyramid. In the midst of every pair of sections there stood a statue. At the focal point of this level was a marble square. Without regard to cost, Artemisia likewise searched out splendid Greek stone carvers Leochares, Scopas of Paros, Bryaxis and Timotheus who were acquired to cut bas-reliefs, delineating fights amongst centaurs and lapiths and between the Greeks and Amazons, in each of the four dividers of this middle segment. The most perceived of these craftsmen was Scopas, who had planned the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. The four artists and the planner were helped by an uncounted number of extra skilled workers. The tomb itself was inside the most astounding purpose of the rooftop and incorporated a twenty foot model of a four-horse chariot made out of marble that held a resemblance of Mausolus and Artemisia. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus earned a one of a kind authentic position as it was one of few of that time that was not built to respect a god.

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus survived the fall of the city to Alexander the Great and remained guarding the vestiges of Halicarnassus for sixteen centuries. A progression of tremors obliterated the sections and launch the chariot to the ground. By 1404 AD the main identifiable part was the base itself. The stones from the Mausoleum were utilized to erect the Bodrum Castle in 1494. The British Museum is currently home to a large portion of the remaining parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Award's Tomb, The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Los Angeles City Hall and the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C. are only a couple of the present day structures based upon the engineering of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.