At Luxor under the peristyle, and at Karnak between each column of the great nave, were also placed statues of Pharaoh; but these were statues of Pharaoh the victor, clad in his robe of state.

The right of consecrating a statue in the temple was above all a royal prerogative; yet the king sometimes permitted private persons to dedicate their statues by the side of his own.

This was, however, a special favour, and such monuments always bear an inscription stating that it is "by the king's grace" that they occupy that position.

Rarely as this privilege was granted, it resulted in a vast accumulation of votive statues, so that in the course of centuries the courts of some temples became crowded with them.

At Karnak, the sanctuary enclosure was furnished outside with a kind of broad bench, breast high, like a long base.