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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 175 (search)
Amasis made a marvellous outer court for the temple of AthenaApparently, Nit; also identified with Demeter (Hdt. 2.132, note). at Saïs, far surpassing all in its height and size, and in the size and quality of the stone blocks; moreover, he set up huge images and vast man-headed sphinxes,Visitors to Karnak will remember the double row of sphinxes leading to the temple. and brought enormous blocks of stone besides for the building. Some of these he brought from the stone quarries of Memphis; the largest came from the city of Elephantine,The island opposite Assuan; the Assuan quarries have always been famous. twenty days' journey distant by river from Saïs. But what I admire most of his works is this: he brought from Elephantine a shrine made of one single block of stone; its transport took three years and two thousand men had the carriage of it, all of them pilots. This chamber is thirty-five feet long, twenty-three feet wide, thirteen feet high. These are the external dimensions of th