Μαύσσωλλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="title">SIG</span>167.2, al. (Mylasa, iv B.C.), or Μαύσωλλος, ib. 169.3 (Iasos, iv B.C.), or Μαύσωλος (as freq. in codd.), ὁ, <span class="title">Mausolus</span>, a Carian noble, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.118</span>; another, called satrap or king, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ages.</span> 2.26</span>, <span class="bibl">D.15.3</span>, <span class="title">SIG</span> ll. cc., etc.:—Adj. Μαυσσώλλειος or Μαυσσώλλεος, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> τετράδραχμα <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).161 <span class="title">B</span>21, al. (Delos, iii B.C.): [[Μαυσωλεῖον]], τό, [[tomb of Mausolus]], [[tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus]], <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>36.30</span>:—hence, as appellat., [[mausoleum]], <span class="bibl">Str.5.3.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.8.16.4</span> (pl.).</span>

Mausolus (Greek: Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος; Mauśoλ “very dear”) was a ruler of Caria (377–353 BC), nominally a satrap of the Achaemenid Empire. He enjoyed the status of king or dynast by virtue of the powerful position created by his father Hecatomnus (Carian: 𐊴𐊭𐊪𐊳𐊫 K̂tmño) who had succeeded the assassinated Persian Satrap Tissaphernes in the Carian satrapy and founded the hereditary dynasty of the Hecatomnids.