. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . APKIES, FKOM A SPHINX IN THE LOUVEE. 1 Diodorus Siculus has transferred the anecdote to Amasis, and thedecision given is elsewhere attributed to one of the seven sages. The story-is a popular romance, of which Herodotus gives the version current amongthe Greeks in Egypt. ^ According to Herodotus, Apries was the son of Psammis. The sizeof the sarcophagus of Psammetichus II., suitable only for a youth, makesthis filiation improbable. Psammetichus, who came to the throne whenhe was hardly more than a child, could have left behind him onl
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . APKIES, FKOM A SPHINX IN THE LOUVEE. 1 Diodorus Siculus has transferred the anecdote to Amasis, and thedecision given is elsewhere attributed to one of the seven sages. The story-is a popular romance, of which Herodotus gives the version current amongthe Greeks in Egypt. ^ According to Herodotus, Apries was the son of Psammis. The sizeof the sarcophagus of Psammetichus II., suitable only for a youth, makesthis filiation improbable. Psammetichus, who came to the throne whenhe was hardly more than a child, could have left behind him onlychildren of tender age, and Apries appears from the outset as a prince offull mental and physical development. ^ Drawn by Boudier, from the bronze statuette in the Louvre Museum. THE REVOLT OP TYRE AND JUDAH 423 their determination, and allied themselves with Egypt onthe same terms as Judah. Nebuchadrezzar, thus defied by. STELE OF MEBUCHADEEZZAE. three enemies, was at a loss to decide upon which to make The figures 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by been carefully defaced with the hammer, but the outline of theking can still be discerned on the left; he seizes the rampant lion bythe right paw, and while it raises its left paw against him, he plunges hisdagger into the body of the beast. 424 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDiBAN EMPIRE his first attack, Bzekiel, whose place of exile put him in afavourable position for learning what was passing, showshim to us as he stood at the parting of the way, at thehead of the two ways, to use divination: he shook thearrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked inthe liver. ^ Judah formed as it were the bridge by whichthe Egyptians could safely enter Syria, and if Nebucha-drezzar could succeed in occupying it before their arrival,he could at once break up the coalition into three separateparts incapable of rejoining one another—Ammon in
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