 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1876 - 482 pages
...along which they drew the stones, a work in my opinion not much less than the pyramid. ... On this road ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous...were spent in erecting the pyramid itself; of this, which is square, each face is eight plethra, and the height is the same. It is composed of polished... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...length is five stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...were spent in erecting the pyramid itself: of this, which is square, each face is eight plethra, and the height is the same ; it is composed of polished... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 342 pages
...and its width ten orgyae (60 feet), and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyse (48 feet) ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on it : on this road these ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1894 - 450 pages
...and its width ten orgya; (60 feet), and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgya; (48 feet) ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...were spent in erecting the pyramid itself: of this, which is square, each face is eight plethra (820 feet), and the height is the same ; it is composed... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...length is five stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made us a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile. Twenty years... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - 996 pages
...and its width ten orgyse (60 feet), and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgys (48 feet) ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which * Bk. ii. 124-126. the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...feet), and its width 10 orgyae (60 feet), and its height, where "it is the highest, 8 orgyae (48 feet) ; and it is of polished stone, " with figures carved on it : on this road then 10 years were witn nsniics carvcu uii i>. • ***» «•«* * Vi "expendtd, and in forming the subterraneous... | |
 | William Kingsland - 1996 - 188 pages
...PYRAMID FROM THE NORTH-WEST width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by drawing a canal from the Nile. Twenty years were spent in erecting the pyramid itself : of this, which... | |
 | S. H. Ford - 1996 - 222 pages
...length is five stades, and its width ten orgyse, and its height where it is the highest, right orgyce ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous :i|>:u:l inrtil A oil the hill, on which the Pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1964 - 446 pages
...and its width ten orgyae (60 feet), and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae (48 feet) ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on...were spent in erecting the pyramid itself: of this, which is square, each face is eight plethra (820 feet), and the height is the same ; it is composed... | |
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... and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on it : on this road then ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island,... 
