54), except where the lintel is over-shadowed by a projecting cornice.

Real windows occur only in the pavilion of Medinet Habu; but that building was constructed on the model of a fortress, and must rank as an exception among religious monuments.
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53 .-- Temple wall with cornice.] [Illustration: Fig.

54 .-- Niche and doorway in temple of Seti I.at Abydos.] [Illustration: Fig.

55 .-- Pavement of the portico of Osiris in the temple of Seti I.at Abydos.] The ground-level of the courts and halls was flagged with rectangular paving stones, well enough fitted, except in the intercolumniations, where the architects, hopeless of harmonising the lines of the pavement with the curved bases of the columns, have filled in the space with small pieces, set without order or method (fig.