Belevi Mausoleum
Coordinates: 38 ° 0 ′ 53 ″ N , 27 ° 28 ′ 20 ″ E
The Belevi Mausoleum is a monumental ancient tomb east of the village of Belevi near ancient Ephesus in western Turkey .
The remains of the mausoleum that are still visible consist of a stone base with a circumference of approx. 30 × 30 meters and an opening on the south side in which a sarcophagus is said to have been. Parts of the pillars near the monument suggest that there was a pillared courtyard on this approximately 10-meter-high base. A griffin and a lion head, which were among the ornaments of the mausoleum, are exhibited in the Ephesus Museum Selçuk .
Dating (4th or 3rd century BC) and original grave owner are discussed in research. Have been proposed, among others, Lysimachus , a companion of Alexander the Great , the Seleucid ruler Antiochus II. (286-246 v. Chr.), The Persian satrap Autophradates , Mentor of Rhodes , brother of the commander Memnon , or Heroon for the Pastoral Pixodarus Euangelos .
literature
- George Ewart Bean : BELEVI Ionia, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Camillo Praschniker , Max Theuer and others: The mausoleum of Belevi. (= Research in Ephesus ). Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900305-08-0 .
- Reinhard Heinz: The mausoleum of Belevi - building research (= research in Ephesos . Vol. 6/1). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7001-7528-5 .
- Peter Ruggendorfer: The mausoleum of Belevi - archaeological studies on chronology, equipment and foundation (= research in Ephesos . Vol. 6/2). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7001-7758-6 .
Web links
- Jona Lendering: Belevi Mausoleum . In: Livius.org (English)
- Research by the Austrian Archaeological Institute on the Belevi mausoleum
Remarks
- ^ Wolfram Hoepfner : To the mausoleum of Belevi . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . 1993, pp. 111-123.
- ^ Jona Lendering: Belevi Mausoleum . In: Livius.org (English)
- ↑ Gürcan Polat: Was the Persian satrap Autophradates of Sardis the original burial lord of the mausoleum in Belevi? In: Epigraphica Anatolica . 38, 2005, pp. 57-72 ( PDF ).
- ^ Josef Keil : The grave lord of the mausoleum of Belevi . In: Anzeiger of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Philosophical-historical class . 86, 1949, pp. 51-60.
- ^ Sándor Kasper: The tumulus of Belevi . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . 1975, pp. 223-223.