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To the other temples of much note Amasis also made magnificent
offerings - at Memphis, for instance, he gave the recumbent colossus
in front of the temple of Vulcan, which is seventy-five feet long.
Two other colossal statues stand on the same base, each twenty feet
high, carved in the stone of Ethiopia, one on either side of the
temple. There is also a stone colossus of the same size at Says,
recumbent like that at Memphis. Amasis finally built the temple of
Isis at Memphis, a vast structure, well worth seeing.
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