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Title: The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Herodotus White, John S. (John Stuart), 1847-1922, ed
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and quality of the stones ; he likewise dedicated largestatues, and huge andro-sphinxes, and brought other stones of aprodigious size for repairs : some from the quarries near Memphis;but those of greatest magnitude, from the city of Elephantine, dis-tant from Sais a passage of twenty days. But that which I ratherthe most admire, is this : he brought a building of one stone fromthe city of Elephantine, and two thousand men, who were ap-pointed to convey it, were occupied three whole years in its trans-port, and these men were all pilots. The length of this chamber,outside, is twenty-one cubits, the breadth fourteen, and the heighteight. But inside, the length is eighteen cubits and twenty digits,the width twelve cubits, and the height five cubits. This cham-ber is placed near the entrance of the sacred precinct ; for they FROM THE TWELVE KINGS TO AM A SIS. 13^ say that he did not draw it within the precinct for the followingreason : the architect, as the chamber was being drawn along,
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THE GREAT SPHINX. heaved a deep sigh, being wearied with the work, over which solong a time had been spent ; whereupon Amasis, making a re- o 6 HERODO TUS. ligious scruple of this, would not suffer it to be drawn any far-ther. Some persons however say, that one of the men employedat the levers was crushed to death by it, and that on that accountit was not drawn into the precinct. Amasis dedicated in all themost famous temples, works admirable for their magnitude ; andamongst them, at Memphis, the reclining colossus before thetemple of Vulcan, of which the length is seventy-five feet ; andon the same base stand two statues of Ethiopian stone, each twentyfeet in height, one on each side of the temple. There is also atSais another similar statue, lying in the same manner as that atMemphis. It was Amasis also who built the temple to Isis atMemphis, which is spacious and well worthy of notice. Under the reign of Amasis, Egypt is said to have enjoyed thegreatest prosperity, both in respect

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