TAA i.3.23.6

                                                   (V)

is perfectly suited to their purpose and environment – the

tomb. Their effect is rendered even more impressive by their

gilded all-over decoration. Free standing they are of the

simplest form. With one exception <(1)>, they are surmounted by
<(1)

The first innermost

shrine has a barrel

-vault roof.>

a slightly elevated roof, which is curved in front and has a

receding slope towards the back. The curved front of their

back                                         [ 𓂀 ]                                    Front

roofs is effectively decorated with the winged solar disc, which is

also employed to decorate the “chief beam” over their doorways.

They are destitute of any but the simplest mouldings. They

are merely crowned with what is called the “gorge” – an overhanging

hollow moulding <also> known as the cavetto cornice, with a plain

roll member beneath it which is also carried down the external

angles of the corner posts. The hollow moulding of the cornices

is enriched with a repeated palm-leaf ornament, which

seems to have been derived from temporary wattle and 

daub palm-leaf fencing of palm-leaves: the tips of the palm

leaves that projected above the fence being blown by the winds

into an over-hanging curve; the roll member, OR tomb moulding,

is being the top horizontal rail to which the vertical stems <of the leaves> were

bound. (1) Below this roll member is a simple post and beam

<(1)

Although absent

here, on other monument

this roll member is

decorated with a pattern

[ 𓂀 ] representing
the string binding.>