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 Monumental Details. DO the top of their stylobates (Figs. 131 and 132) and their pedestals (Fia. 137). They also used it within their buildings at the top of the walls behind their colonnades, as, for instance, in the peripteral temple at Elephantine (Fig. 138). The number of buildings in which this cornice was not used is very small. The Royal Pavilion at Medinet-Abou is surrounded, at the top, by a line of round-headed battlements ; in the Temple of Semneh, built by Thothmes I.,^ and in the pronaos of the Temple of Amada, the usual form gives place to a square cornice which is quite primitive in its simplicity. Traces of other mouldings, such as those which we call the cyma, and the cyma reversa, may be found in Egyptian . ; .. .-_-' ■.•';, itetiiiMri M ^^ l^^:|jli?^::-^i^S^^^ r.-:, -lU ^-^

. .- Fig. 137. — Pedestal of a Sphinx at Kamak. Description, iii. 29. Fig. 13 8. — Ccmice under ihe portico, Elephantine. temples, but they occur so rarely that we need not dwell upon them here or figure them.- Besides these mouldings, which were used but ver)' rarely, we need only mention one more detail of the kind, namely, those vertical and horizontal grooves which occur upon the masonrv walls and were derived from the structures' in wood. They w^ere chiefly used for the ornamentation of the great sur- faces afforded by the brick walls (Fig. 261, 'ol. I.), but they are also to be found upon stone buildings. We give, as an example, a fragment found at Alexandria, which is supposed to belong to the 1 Lepsius, Denkmaler, voL ii. pi. 83, and voL v. pi. 56. "" See Chipiez, Histoire Critique des Ordres Grecques, p. 90. VOL. IL X