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"Then on the one hand in Sais for Athena he made to completion foregates of a marvellous kind and far excelled all men with their height and their size, in that they are of such large stones in their size and of what kinds, while on the other hand he dedicated large colossuses and very tall man-sphinxes and conveyed other stones for repair, extraordinary in their size. And he brought back for himself of those some from the stone-quarries that were by Memphis and some, the oversized, from the city of Elephantine that was even twenty days’ sailing distant from Sais. What then not least of them, but most, I marvel at, is this: a building of one stone he conveyed from the city of Elephantine and that he was conveying for three years and two thousand men were assigned to it as transporters and those were all pilots. That chamber’s length on the outside is twenty one cubits, its breadth fourteen and its height eight. Those are the dimensions on the outside of the chamber, but on the inside is the length of eighteen cubits and a pygon, the breadth of twelve cubits and the height of five cubits. It is situated alongside the shrine’s entrance. For they assert they did not drag it inside, into the shrine, for this reason: the master-builder of it, as the chamber was being dragged, let out a groan, seeing that much time had gone by and he was vexed, and Amasis took it to heart and refused to allow him any longer to drag it. And by now some say that a human being was destroyed under it, one of those who moved it by levers, and after that it was not dragged. Further, Amasis dedicated not only in all the other shrines held in account works in their size worth beholding, but moreover also in Memphis the colossus that lies on its back before the temple of Hephaestus, of which seventy five feet are its length, and on the base itself stand two colossuses that are of Ethiopian stone, each being in its size of twenty feet, the one on one side of and the other on the other side of the large. Also there is another stone one of that large a size in Sais too and it is situated according to the same manner as that in Memphis. In short, Amasis was he who built to completion for Isis the shrine in Memphis that is large and most worth beholding."