[130] The history and signification of this symbol were treated by BRUGSCH in a paper entitled: "_Die Sage von der geflügelten Sonnenscheibe nach alt Ægyptischen Quellen dargestellt._" [131] In this restricted and comparatively mean form the emblem in question is found at Beni-Hassan. (LEPSIUS, _Denkmæler_, part ii. pl. 123.) [Illustration: FIG. 135.--Cornice of the Ramesseum. _Description_, ii. 30.] [Illustration: FIG. 136.--Cornice of a wooden pavilion; from Prisse.] In the more richly decorated buildings, such as the Ramesseum, we sometimes find cartouches introduced between the vertical grooves of the cornice (Fig. 135). In the representations of architecture on the painted walls the upper member of the cornice as usually constituted, is often surmounted by an ornament composed of the uræus and the solar disk, the latter being upon the head of the former (Fig. 136). This addition gives a richer and more ample cornice, which the Ptolemaic architects carried out in stone. It is not to be found thus perpetuated in any Pharaonic building, but the same motive occurs at Thebes, below the cornice, and its existence in the bas-reliefs shows that even in early times it was sometimes used. Perhaps it was confined to those light structures in which complicated forms were easily carried out. This cornice seemed to the Egyptians to be so entirely the proper termination for their rising surfaces, that they placed it at the top of their stylobates (Figs. 131 and 132) and their pedestals (Fig. 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 Elephantiné (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.,[132] 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. [132] LEPSIUS, _Denkmæler_, vol. ii. pl. 83, and vol. v. pl. 56. [Illustration: FIG. 137.--Pedestal of a Sphinx at Karnak. _Description_, iii. 29.] [Illustration: FIG. 138.--Cornice under the portico, Elephantiné.] Traces of other mouldings, such as those which we call the _cyma_, and the _cyma reversa_, may be found in Egyptian temples, but they occur so rarely that we need not dwell upon them here or figure them.[133] [133] See CHIPIEZ, _Histoire Critique des Ordres Grecques_, p. 90.