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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt:...and with the certain information on the monuments; and in particular he gives many of the great actions of Rameses and Shishank to a king of the name of Sesostris, whom we in vain search for in history. With the priests of Lower Egypt the chief hero was their own Shishank, who overthrew the family of Rameses, and made the unwilling Thebans carve his praise on the temple of Amun-Ka. And by putting together his actions and those of some others, and then spelling his name badly, Herodotus has created for us the great Sesostris. Diod. Sic., (25) Memphis was then at its greatest size; it had lib. i. 50. been jsing on the fall of Thebes, and with its citadel and suburbs had a circuit of one hundred and fifty stadia, or Herodotus, sixteen miles. The chief building, after lib. ii. 121. the citadel of tig white Wall, was the great temple of the pigmy god Pthah (see Fig. 171), ornamented with stately porticoes and colossal statues of the gods and kings, added by the piety and magnificence of successive,.,.... sovereigns. On the south side of this Lib. ". 112. temple was the Phenician quarter of the town, called the Camp of the Tyrians. Here stood the temple of a god whom the Greeks named Proteus, and also the temple of the foreign Fi 171 Venus, another Phenician deity. A third PheLib. iii. 37. nician temple was that of the pigmy gods the Cabeiri, Lib ii 153 into wnih none but the priests ever entered. On the same side of the temple of Pthah was the hall, or rather stable, used for the bull Apis, whenever Egypt was fortunate enough to possess an animal with the right spots. It was a small building, surrounded by a colonnade in which Lib ii 176 colossal statues, eighteen feet high, filled the place of columns. The newest temple was that of Isis, which Eusbathius,...