Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
built of one stone' from the foundations to the
roof and their queen was a woman who was more
Queen Can- bcautiful in appearance and who was more under-
standinof than all the other women in the world,
and she had three sons; now the name of the
queen was Kendaka (Candace). And when we
had drawn nigh to her country I wrote a letter
unto her, saying:
Alexander's "In the Name of God, the Merciful and Gracious!
"From the servant of God, the Two-horned king,
"to Candace the queen of Shamer [, Greeting]. In
"former times when I was in the land of Egypt,
"I saw there [your] lofty buildings and man}'
"graves of [your] mighty men, and bones which
"had grown old and had become as dust. Then
"I enquired concerning these things, and they told
"me^ that thou hadst invaded Egypt .^ and that
"thou hadst dwelt therein for many days, and that
"thou hadst slain the hosts that were therein, and
"hadst carried into captivity their women and
"young men. [And they told me] that when thou
"returnedst [to thy country] thou didst carry away
' /. ,?., they were monolithic. On the ten monolithic
temples built by Lalibala in Ethiopia, see Perruchon, J'ic de
Lalibala, p. 122.
"" In the Syriac version (p. 118) Alexander says that the
priests told him that the god Ammon was the helper of the
Ethiopians; with this statement compare Brugsch, Egypt under
the Pharaohs, vol. 11. p. 234, ff.
3 A reference probably to the capture of Memphis by the
Ethiopians, for ThC • here probably means ^.-^^ Cairo.