Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 75
; others from the Egyptian pehram, the sacred place :the Greeks, adopting the native name, and adding a termination oftheir own, it was converted into the Greek word Pyramis. Accord- PYRAMIDS. 57 ing to Lanei, it is derived from pi-ram; pi, being the Copticarticle: the word ram, besides being a… … PLAN OF PYRAMIDS. Greek historian, Herodotus; and the three largest are ascribed byhim to Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus, three Pharaohs who * Mr. Kenrick gives a more obvious and judicious derivation ; according to himit is probably Greek on the following authority : Etym. M. voc, Uvpa/j.^, t\…
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