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The cow was not placed under ground, but continued visible to my
times: it was at Sais, in the royal palace, where it occupied a
chamber richly adorned. Every day there are burnt before it aromatics
of every kind; and all night long a lamp is kept burning in the
apartment. In an adjoining chamber are statues which the priests at
Sais, declared to represent the various concubines of Mycerinus.
They are colossal figures in wood, of the number of about twenty, and
are represented naked. Whose images they really are, I cannot say -
I can only repeat the account which was given to me.
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