 I myself saw ; for the passages through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented a thousand occasions of wonder as I passed from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms to halls, and to other corridors from...  Queer Things about Egypt - Page 245by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1911 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herodotus - 1899 - 626 pages
...built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms ; but the upper...full of sculptured figures. Each court is surrounded by a colonnade of white stone, closely fitted. And adjoining the extremity of the labyrinth is a pyramid,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms to halls, and to other corridors from the halls, and *> other courts from the rooms. The roofs of all these are of stone, as also arc the walls ; but the walls are full of sculptured figures. Each court is surrounded with a colonnade... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 244 pages
...through the corridors, and the windings " through the courts, from their great variety, pre" sented a thousand occasions of wonder, as I passed "from...the rooms. The roofs of all these " are of stone, as are also the walls ; but the walls are " full of sculptured figures. Each court is surrounded "with... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 716 pages
...AND BF.NI SUWftF. 329 I passed from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms to the hall, and to the other corridors from the halls, and to other courts...walls ; but the walls are full of sculptured figures. Kach court is surrounded with a colonnade of white stone, closely fitted. And adjoining the extremity... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - 996 pages
...corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented a thousand occa sions of wonder, as I passed from a court to the rooms,...rooms. The roofs of all these, are of stone, as also arc the walls ; but the walls are full of sculptured figures. Each court is surrounded with a colonnade... | |
 | James Baikie - 1910 - 372 pages
...them, to the number of 3,000, 1,500 of each.' He was not allowed to inspect the underground chambers. ' But the upper ones, which surpass all human works,...with a colonnade of white stone, closely fitted.'* Herodotus believed that the building belonged to the time of Psamtek I., in which, of course, he was... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...the lower rooms ; but the upper ones, which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the...adjoining ' the extremity of the labyrinth is a pyramid, 40 orgyse (about ' 240 feet) in height, on which large figures are carved, and a ' way to it has been... | |
 | E. A. Wallis Budge - 2001 - 344 pages
...rooms, and from the rooms to the hall, and to the other corridors from the halls, and to other cou-s from the rooms. The roofs of all these are of stone,...but the walls are full of sculptured figures. Each cou- is surrounded with a colonnade of white stone, closely fitted. And adjoining the extremity of... | |
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