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 3o6 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, side with small chambers which were increased in number as each successive Apis died and required a sepulchre. This gallery and its chambers served for 700 years (see Figs. 197 and 198). The funerary architecture of the Sait epoch seems to have had an originality of its own, but we are unable to form an opinion from any existing remains. Not a trace is extant of those tombs in which the princes of the twenty-sixth dynasty were, according to Herodotus, placed one after another. Here are the words of the Greek historian : ol 8e (the Egyptians) fiiv (A pries) arrtTTVL^ai', /cat tirebra e6ayrav ev rrjcn irarpwrjat racfirjai, — at Se etcrt IV T(p ipcp Trjs KOrjvairjs, a'^)(OTarw rov /jieydpov ecnovrt, apLareprj^ %epo9 — tdap-av St ^atrat iravTas rovs tK vo/xov rovrou  tc3 Ip^. kol •jap to tov ^AfiacrLos arjjxa eKaarepco fieu Fig. 197. — View of the grand gallery in the Apis Mausoleum ; from Marietta. f^ajL TOV pL^'yapov 7; to tov ATrpteco Kat tcov toltov npoTTaToprov' eart fievTOt, Kai TovTu iv ti, avXjj tov ipov, iraaTas Xidivr} /u.eyaXr}, koI rjafcrjjjb'tvr] aTvXoLol Te (f^oiviKas Ta BtvSpea fj,ejj,(.fX7]fj,6V0tai, Kat tt) aWrj SaTravr/. eaco Be ev tt; TracTTaSi, Bi^a Ovpcu/jLaTa ecTTijKe' ev 8e toIctl dvpco/xaat 7j OrjKr] tan. campaign which, begun in the month of October, 1850, brought fame to a young man who had, until then, both open enmity and secret intrigue to contend against. ' Herodotus, ii. 169. "The Egyptians strangled Apries, but, having done so, they buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers. This tomb is in the temple of Athene {N'eith), very near the sanctuary, on the left hand as one enters. The natives of Sais buried all the kings which belonged to their nome within this temple, and, in fact, it also contains the tomb of Amasis, as well as that of Apries and his family, but the former is not so close to the sanctuary as the former, but still it is within the buildings of the temple, in a large chamber constructed of stone, with columns in the shape of the trunks of palm-trees, and richly decorated besides, which incloses