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Title: The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: Civilization
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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lled in a revolution ; and it follows from the narrative of the facts that this anonymous brotherwas the Metesouphis of Manetho (Herodotus, ii. 100). The Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, Auswahl, pi. iv.col. vi. fragm. 59) assigns a reign of a year and a month to Mihtimsaûf-Metesouphis II. 3 Herodotus, ii. 100 ; cf. Wiedemann, Herodots Zweites Buch, pp. 399, 400. 4 The legend which ascribes the building of the third pyramid to a woman has been preservedby Herodotus (ii. 134) : E. de Bunsen, comparing it with the observations of Vyse, was inclined toattribute to Nitokris the enlarging of the monument (JEgyptens Stelle, vol. ii. pp. 236-238), whichappears to me to have been the work of Mykerinos himself ; cf. pp. 376, 380, 381 of this History. 5 Lepsius, Chronologie der Alien Mgypter, p. 304, et seq. 6 Strabo, xvii., I. § 33, p. 808 : this is a form, as has been frequently remarked, of the story oft: Cinderella. Piehl (Notes de Phil. Égyptienne, § 2, in the Proceedings of the Bib. Arch. Soc.
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440 THE MEMPHITE EMPIRE. Christianity and the Arab conquest did not entirely efface the remembranceof the courtesan-princess. It is said that the spirit of the Southern Pyramidnever appears abroad, except in the form of a naked woman, who is verybeautiful, but whose manner of acting is such, that when she desires to makepeople fall in love with her, and lose their wits, she smiles upon them, andimmediately they draw near to her, and she attracts them towards her, andmakes them infatuated with love ; so that they at once lose their wits, andwander aimlessly about the country. Many have seen her moving round thepyramid about midday and towards sunset.1 It is Nitokris still hauntingthe monument of her shame and her magnificence.2 After her, even tradition is silent, and the history of Egypt remains a mereblank for several centuries. Manetho admits the existence of two other Mem-phite dynasties, of which the first contains seventy kings during as many days.Akhthoës, the most cruel of tyr

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