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Furthermore, Amasis dedicated, besides monuments of marvellous size in all the other temples of note, the huge image that lies supine before Hephaestus' temple at Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis ; this image is seventy-five feet in length; there stand on the same base, on either side of the great image, two huge statues hewn from the same block, each of them twenty feet high.
Furthermore, Amasis dedicated, besides monuments of marvellous size in all the other temples of note, the huge image that lies supine before Hephaestus' temple at Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis ; this image is seventy-five feet in length; there stand on the same base, on either side of the great image, two huge statues hewn from the same block, each of them twenty feet high.
[2] There is at
Saïs another stone figure of like size, supine as is the figure at
Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Memphis
. It was
Amasis, too, who built the great and most marvellous temple of
Isis at
Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Memphis
.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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