Mausoleums
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Jerarquía
Built Environment (Hierarchy Name) > Single Built Works (Hierarchy Name) > single built works (Built Environment) > <single built works by specific type> > <single built works by function> > ceremonial structures > funerary structures > funerary buildings > sepulchral buildings
Descripción
Large, stately, or imposing edifices erected as commemorative burial places for or by a person of distinction. The word is derived from the burial place of Mausolus, ruler of Caria, in whose memory his widow Artemisia raised a splendid tomb at Halicarnassus (ca. 350 BCE).
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Otros términos
- mausoleos [es]
- mausoleum [en]
- mausolea [en]
- mausolea [nl]
- mausoleo [es]