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ἐκ πλίνθων. What pyramid H. means is disputed. Stein, on account of the reference to the λίμνη (§ 4), thinks one of the brick pyramids by Lake Moeris is meant; there are also two brick pyramids at Dahshûr, some twenty miles south of Gizeh.

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