298 FROM GRAND CAIRO TO ROSETTA. 
CHAP, tude and grandeur surpassed every thing before 
> v' ' seen, of such enormous size were the stones 
employed in the building and in its foundation. 
Herodotus, enumerating the decorations given by 
Amasis to this edifice, mentions colossal statues 
of prodigious magnitude, under the appellation 
of Androsp hinges \ A statue of this kind was 
discovered soon after we left Egypi^. But the 
most surprising work at Sais was a monoUthal 
shrine ^ brought from Upper Egypt; in the con- 
veyance of which, from Elephantine, two thou- 
sand persons were employed, during three 
years*. A celebrated colossus, given hy Amasis 
to the teraple of Vulcan at Memphis, had also its 
duplicate at Sdis, of the same size, and in the 
same attitude \ Within the sacred inclosure were 
( 1 ) "Vovra Se, xiXiffirov; fiiyaXov; ku.) 'ANAP0S<l>INrA2 mpifir,Kia.s aninxi' 
" 5^-.iiiietiam ingeutes colossos, et iminancs ANDROSPHINGAS, ibi- 
dem posuit." Herodot. Euterpe, c. 175. Ed, Galei. 
(2) See Hamilton's jSgyptiaca, p. 382. Lond. 1809. 
(3) Count Caylus wrote a dissertation upon this extraordinary struc- 
ture. I'''uy. Mim. de I' Academie, 8fe. torn. xxxi. Hist. p. 23. 
(4) Herodot. Euterpe, c. 175. 
(5) Ibid. c. 176. The colossal hand oi granite, wliich is now in the 
British iMuseum, was found by the Fretich upon the site of autieut 
Memphis, between Djiza and Sacc/ira, ami believed by them to have 
belonged to one of the statues meutioneJ by Herodotus, as being near 
the Temple of Fulean. 
