Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Also known as: Tomb of Mausolus · Mausoleum · the Mausoleum · Mausoleum, the · Mausoleon · Mausoleion
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II.
Connections1
Collaborative architectural project
Scopas was one of the four principal sculptors commissioned to decorate this monumental tomb, which is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.