Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt / [John Greaves].

  • John Greaves
Date:
1646
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Credit: Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt / [John Greaves]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tit nominall then reall. The fame (7) Herodotvs n Yterodotlitus i ‘: alfo writes , that fome of the Grxcians make the ee Kyl third Pyramid the worke of Rhodopis a Curti- Podtelmer tra pis Will wan 5 an errour in opinion of thofe, who feeme not Ea ee |to kuow who this Rhodopis might be, of which &c, * Be itil) they fpeake = for neither could fhe have undertaken hil fach a Pyramid, on which [0 many thonfand talents lil were to be fpent ; xeather lived {hee in this mans ‘lil gimme, but inthe time of King Amafis. Now this: iit) Armafis, as he elfewhere fhewes, lived long after ‘ntl thefe Pyramids were in being. The fame ftorie is a tecited by (p) Strabo and Plizy, both of them # Afyry 32 a¥e ai ge bittirag Tepos ye~ Omitting the names of the Founders of the former Srey 2 inik| CWO? Strabo gives her a double name; The third sé,» x:as6 sot] Pyramid zs rhe Sepwlcher of a Curtizan, made by © ae oe her lovers, whom Sappho the Poetreffe calls Dori new bepudrle we ey cha, Miftreffe to her brother Charaxus ; others “ee Wie! | HAERES PG aT ih wane ber Rhodope. But whether wee name her dau 2 sua dor iil Doricha, or Rhodope , the relation is altogether ee Stmab- wusamprobable, if we confider either hercondition,or — ¥ “ithe infinite vaftneffe of the expenfe, For *Diodo- « piod. sic. 1.1, \vvs,though he rightly acknowledges this Pyramid w4to be much leffe then either of the former two,yet Awlin refpect of the exquifite workmanfhip,and rich- ameffe of the materials,he judges it not inferiout to jueither of them. A {truure certainly too great and : os , to have beene the defigne,and under- taking of a Curtizan, which could hardly haye been 4 DicASielib t. performed by a rich,and potent Monarch, And yet (7% ¢ i Diedorus hath almoft the fame relation, onely a oe Ete rete yoqelittle altered in the circumftances : (4) Some fay, ie Ce . viymlthat this ws the Sepulcher of the ftrumpet Rho- ie a@idope; of whom, fome of the Nomarche .(or Pre- fe eee wakects of the Provinces) being inamoured,by a com~ irarton waist ~ Ne o CHU ae Db 3 PLOW TINA ATKiV hams on ysbabily miltation fh Mi P)