After Mycerinus, the
priests said, Asukhis became king of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt. He built the eastern outer court of Hephaestus' temple; this is by far the finest and grandest of all
the courts, for while all have carved figures and innumerable felicities of
architecture, this court has far more than any.
As not much money was in circulation during this king's reign, they told me,
a law was made for the Egyptians allowing a man
to borrow on the security of his father's corpse; and the law also provided
that the lender become master of the entire burial-vault of the borrower,
and that the penalty for one giving this security, should he fail to repay
the loan, was that he was not to be buried at his death either in that tomb
of his fathers or in any other, nor was he to bury any relative of his
there.
Furthermore, in his desire to excel all who ruled Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt before him, this king left a pyramid of brick to commemorate his
name, on which is this writing, cut on a stone:
“Do not think me less than pyramids of stone; for I excel them as much as
Zeus does other gods; for they stuck a pole down
into a marsh and collected what mud clung to the pole, made bricks of it,
and thus built me.” These were the acts of Asukhis.