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THE CARIAN PRINCESS ADA In Bodrum Castle, in the hall behind the Italian Tower, there is the display of the private belongings and grave of Princess Ada (In Turkish this word means island) of the Carian dynasty of Hekatomnos. The identification of the skeleton, which was unearthed while foundations were being dug, was proven to be the Carian princess. A reconstruction of the flesh made in England based on the skeleton gave an indication that the face had similarities to a portrait of Princess Ada that was found in Priene, the jewellery also recovered has a Persian influence, while anthropologic studies showing that she had given birth multiple times made the argument even stronger.

This woman, who died when she was 44, had her jewellery, a drinking cup and gold embrioded clothing placed in her burial chamber. The princess died around 330 BC and, along with her skeleton, the skeleton of a mouse that had got in before the top of her tomb was shut with the large stone was also recovered. After the tomb was closed it was covered with very large stones. In the Princess Ada exhibition hall you can see the videotape of the recovering of the finds, a chronology of her family tree, a meeting room decorated and furnished according to the same period and a plaster copy of the face of the princess that was developed in England where the skull of the princess had been sent to the British Museum from Priene.

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