An overall view. The actual tomb was beneath the structure. The new Anchor factory made the large number of ¼ unit thick stones. No one's collection would have had enough of these stones.
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by Ernst Offerman
The Tomb of Halikarnassos is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was built in the 4th century, BC. There have been some 40 to 50 reconstructions made, most based on little more than imagination. AV Ernst Offerman checked all of the good sources, especially Dr. J van Breen. Ernst visited Bodrum, the former Halikarnassos, in Turkey, where he photographed and measured the original site. He established the Golden Ratio and the five so-called holy triangles were used in the design of the mausoleum. Using all of these sources, and the realities that actual building impose, Ernst drew up and built this reconstruction. It is in the scale of 1 : 48. The pieces of marble building stone that Ernst found had an average thickness of 300.8 mm, which lead to the 'natural' Anchor dimension of 6.25 mm, or a ¼ unit.
An overall view. The actual tomb was beneath the structure. The
new Anchor factory made the large number of ¼ unit thick stones. No
one's collection would have had enough of these stones.
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Of course the decorations are not Anchor. Ernst worked hard to find
and alter, then paint the statues. I will not detail the production
of the statues, especially the four horse chariot. After all, we are
Anchor people.
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The door was not an entrance, but a decoration.
Like the two previous AV Offerman models Castle Egmond (10/96) and Abbey Egmond (2/97), both of which were destroyed by the Spanish in 1573, this model is the result of extensive research and is probably the best reproduction which has ever been made. As with the two Egmond structures, there are no contemporary drawings. Just very limited archeological remains.
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