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 Bk. I. Ch. III. FIRST THEBAN KINGDOM. 109 pyramid measuring about 200 feet square, or somewhat less than the dimensions ascribed to it by the Greeks. ^ This pyramid was no doubt the tomb of the founder, and the name .'•-X, 13. Block Plan of the Labyrinth. (From Lepsius's "Uenkmaler.") ■-r EE piKuiSir of Amenemhe, one of the kings of this dynasty, has been found on its walls, showing that the fashion of erecting sepulchral pyramids had not then quite gone out, though its accompaniments were of a nature previously unknown. In the Labyrinth itself a num- ber of small cliambers were found, two stories in heiglit, as the account of Herodotus leads us to expect, but 80 small, being only four feet in width at most, that we cannot understand the admiration they excited in his mind. As there are no hieroglyphics upon them, it is difficult to determine whether they belong to the old Labyrinth, or 14. Chambers in Labyriiiili. (From Lepsius.) 1 Herod, ii. 148.