Identifier: cu31924091762140 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE TWO GODDESSES OF LAW; ANI ADORING OSIRIS; THETRIAL OF THE CONSCIENCE; TOTH AND THEFEATHER OF THE LAW. MONUMENTS OF AMASIS IN THE DELTA 113 admirable work which he accomplished at Sais. Thepropylsea which he added to the temple of Nit surpassedmost other buildings of the same kind, as much by theirheight and extent, as by the size and quality of thematerials ; he had, moreover, embellished them by a fine
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AMASIS IN ADOKATIOK BEFOEE THE BULL APIS. colonnade, and made an approach to them by an avenueof sphinxes. In other parts of the same building were tobe seen two superb obelisks, a recumbent figure similarto that at Memphis, and a monolithic naos of rose granitebrought from the quarries of Elephantine. Amasis had aspecial predilection for this kind of monument. Thatwhich he erected at Thmuis is nearly twenty-three feet 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph taken in the Louvre.VOL. IX. I 114 THE IRANIAN CONQUEST in height,* and the Louvre contains another example,which though smaller still excites the admiration of the

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