ἱστορίαι Historiai
Hdt. 2.176 The Histories, Herodotus; served verbatim
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 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. There is at Saïs another stone figure of like size, supine as is the figure at Memphis . It was Amasis, too, who built the great and most marvellous temple of Isis at Memphis .

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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The Histories, Herodotus — translated by A. D. Godley, 1920–25
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