White, Joseph; White, Joseph [Editor]: Aegyptiaca, or observations on certain antiquities of Egypt (Band 1): The history of Pompey's pillar elucidated (Oxford, 1801)

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tEGYPTIACA.

part I.

In purfuance of this defign, our traveller meafured the
breadth of the bafe of the Column, with the utmoft ac-
curacy, at two different heights ; and it well deferves to
be remembered, that the fide of the bafe which he chofe
for this purpofe was the wejiern Jide. The breadth of the
bafe, as he tells us, at the greateft height at which he
meafured it, is i a feet TY9o; at the other height he found
it to be 14 feet (Yol. i. p. 347.)

Of the Infcription, however, the traces of which later
travellers have obferved on this weftern fide of the bafe,
nothing is faid by Greaves, though it appears to have
been his cufiom, in other parts of his works, to pay
particular attention to things of a fimilar nature. If
the Infcription indeed exified at that time, we can
fcarcely conceive that it fhould have efcaped the ob-
fervation of fo intelligent and indufirious an inquirer;
employed too, as he certainly was, in meafuring with
fuch minute accuracy the breadth of the bafe at two
difiindl heights, and on that very fide of it where the
letters are faid to be infcribed. I muff add too, as a
ftill ftronger circumftance, that whoever will take the
trouble to compare the diagram, which Greaves has
given, with the plate of Bifhop Pococke, cannot fail to
obferve, that the uppermoft of the lines acrofs the bafe
meafured by Greaves paffes diredlly over the place
which Pococke has affigned to the Infcription itfelf. We