57), or sculptured with a full-length standing figure of Osiris, as in the second court of Medinet Habu; or, as at Denderah and Gebel Barkal, with the figure of the god Bes.
At Karnak, in an edifice which was probably erected by Horemheb with building material taken from the ruins of a sanctuary of Amenhotep II.

and III., the pillar is capped by a cornice, separated from the architrave by a thin abacus (fig.

58).

By cutting away its four edges, the square pillar becomes an octagonal prism, and further, by cutting off the eight new edges, it becomes a sixteen-sided prism.

Some pillars in the tombs of Asuan and Beni Hasan, and in the processional hall at Karnak (fig.