Histories

Some of these he brought from the stone quarries of Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaMemphis; the largest came from the city of Elephantine,[*](The island opposite +Aswan [32.666,23.83] (governorate), Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Assuan; the +Aswan [32.666,23.83] (governorate), Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Assuan quarries have always been famous.) twenty days' journey distant by river from Saïs.

But what I admire most of his works is this: he brought from Elephantine a shrine made of one single block of stone; its transport took three years and two thousand men had the carriage of it, all of them pilots. This chamber is thirty-five feet long, twenty-three feet wide, thirteen feet high.