Portrait of a young woman from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, sometimes identified as Ada. British Museum.
Satrap of Caria (first reign)
Reign
344–340 BC
Predecessor
Idrieus
Successor
Pixodarus
Queen of Caria (second reign)
Reign
334-326 BC
Predecessor
Orontobates
Successor
Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon
Born
4th century BC Mobolla, Persian Empire (modern-day Muğla, Turkey)
Died
326 BC Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey)
Consort
Idrieus
House
Hecatomnids
Father
Hecatomnus
Hecatomnid dynasty (Dynasts of Caria)
c. 395–377 BCE
Hecatomnus
c. 377–353 BCE
Mausolus
c. 353–351 BCE
Artemisia II
c. 351–344 BCE
Idrieus
c. 344–340 BCE
Ada
c. 340–335 BCE
Pixodarus
c. 335–334 BCE
Orontobates
c. 334–326 BCE
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Ada of Caria (Ancient Greek: Ἄδα) (fl. 377 – 326 BC)[1] was a member of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap and later as Queen under the auspices of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon.[2]
^377 BC is the date of her father's death: Gardner, Percy (1918). A History of Ancient Coinage, 700-300 B.C. Clarendon Press: Oxford University. p. 303.
^Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline; Keith, Alison (2015). Women and War in Antiquity. JHU Press. p. 236. ISBN 9781421417622.
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