The history of Herodotus: The history of Herodotus

Herodotus; Rawlinson, George; Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke; Wilkinson, John Gardner

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Persistent identifier:: 1696944139

Author:: Feuerbach, Ludwig

Title:: Ludwig Feuerbach's sämmtliche Werke

Year of publication:: 1846

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher of the original:: Druck und Verlag von Otto Wigand

Identifier (digital):: 1696944139

Language:: German

Additional Notes:: Bände 1-10 erschienen von 1846-1890.

Printer:: Wigand, Otto

Document type:: Multivolume work

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Persistent identifier:: 169695763X

Author:: Feuerbach, Ludwig

Title:: Theogonie nach den Quellen des classischen, hebräischen und christlichen Alterthums

Scope:: 2 ungezählte Blätter, 446 Seiten, 1 ungezähltes Blatt

Year of publication:: 1857

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher of the original:: Verlag von Otto Wigand

Identifier (digital):: 169695763X

Signature of the source:: a 1167(9)

Language:: German

Usage licence:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Printer:: Wigand, Otto

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2020

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Philosophy; Religion

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Title:: 38. Der Kultus.

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2 HIS MAGNIFICENT OFFERINGS. Boox IL three years to convey this block from the quarry to Sais: and in the conveyance were employed no fewer than two thousand labourers, who were all from the class of boatmen. The length of this chamber on the outside is twenty-one cubits, its breadth fourteen cubits, and its height eight. The measure- ments inside are the following :—The length, eighteen cubits and five-sixths; the breadth, twelve cubits; and the height, five. It lies near the entrance of the temple, where it was left in consequence of the following circumstance :—It happened that the architect, just as the stone had reached the spot where it now stands, heaved a sigh, considering the length of time that the removal had taken, and feeling wearied with the heavy toil. The sigh was heard by Amasis, who, regarding it as an omen, would not allow the chamber to be moved forward any further. Some, however, say that one of the workmen engaged at the levers was crushed and killed by the mass, and that this was the reason of its being left where it now stands. 176. To the other temples of much note Amasis also made magnificent offerings—at Memphis, for instance, he gave the recumbent colossus * in front of the temple of Vulcan, which is seventy-five feet long. Two other colossal statues stand on the same base, each twenty feet high, carved in the stone of Ethiopia; one on either side of the temple. There 1s also a stone colossus of the same size at Sais, recumbent like that at Memphis. Amasis finally built the temple of Isis, at Memphis, a vast structure, well worth seeing. 177. It is said that the reign of Amasis was the most pros- perous time that Egypt ever saw,’—the river was more liberal really the height, when standing erect. lith, may have been left on the ground, It was not equal in weight to the in consequence of the troubles which granite Colossus of Remesesat Thebes, came upon Egypt at the time; and which weighed upwards of 887 tons, which the Egyptians concealed from and it was far inferior to the monolith ~~ Herodotus. Strabo speaks of a Colos- of Buto, which was taken from the sus of a single stone, lying before the same quarries. See note on ch, 155. dromos of the temple at Memphis, 1G. W.] in which the bull fights were held. 4 It was an unusual position for an This may be the statue of Amasis.— Egyptian statue ; and this, as well as [G. W.] the other at Memphis, and the mono- 5 This can only relate to the in- 204

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