The Mausoleum was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene and was about 148 ft heigh. Each of the four sides was adorned with sculptural reliefs created by each of four Greek sculptors — Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus.The finished mauloseum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph .
The whole structure sat in an enclosed courtyard. At the center of which was constructed a stone platform which was a foundation for the tomb. The stone stairway was flanked by stone lions and the outer walls many statues of gods and goddess.At each cornerwas a stone warrior mounted on horseback guarding the tomb. At the center of the platform, the marble tomb rose as a square tapering block to one-third of the Mausoleum's 148 ft height. Bas-reliefs showing action scenes, including the battle of the centaurs with the lapiths and Greeks in combat with the Amazons warrior women.
There were thirty-six slim columns, ten per side, with each corner sharing one column between two sides; rose for another third of the height. The huge roof, was pyramidal on the top of which was a quadriga of four massive horses pulling a chariot in which rode images of Mausolus and Artemisia
A lion is from the Mausoleum ( British Museum Collection).
Colossal statue of a man from the north side of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
