290 FROM GRAND CAIRO TO ROSETTA. 
CHAP. AYTOKPATOPAKAICAPA 
, ^J- . MAPKONAYPHAIONANTXINEINON 
CEBACTONAPMHNIAKONMHAIKON 
nAP0IKONMEriCTON 
HnOAICTONEYEPrETHN 
They saw also the colossal statue of a female, 
with hieroglyphics, the head of which had been 
broken off and removed to Cairo. Fourteen 
camel-loads of treasure were said to have been 
found among the Ruins. Our inquiry after 
antiquities was, however, for a long time unsuc- 
cessful ; and we began to despair of carrying 
from Sdis any thing belonging to the antient 
city, excepting our description of the place, 
and a slight sketch of the inclosure, as seen 
contains it is BOW become rare; the author hopes its repetition here 
will not be deemed superfluous. — Another In-icription, of much greater 
celebrity, is preserved by Plutarch (De Isid. et Osir. c. 9.), as it 
existed upon the pedestal of Minerva's statue at Sais. Kircher has 
attempted to shew the manner in which it was engraven. It was, in 
all probability, written in the Sacred characters ; but, if it were a 
Greek inscription, it might, from its antiquity and the number of the 
letters, have stood in the following order- 
ErnEi M I HANTorEr 
ONOZK A I ONKAI EZO 
MENONKAITONEMON 
nEnAONOYAEiznno 
NHTOZAREKAAYH^EN 
