103).

The ceilings were painted blue, and sprinkled with five-pointed stars painted yellow, occasionally interspersed with the cartouches of the royal founder.

The monotony of this Egyptian heaven was also relieved by long bands of hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The vultures of Nekheb and Uati, the goddesses of the south and north, crowned and armed with divine emblems (fig.

104), hovered above the nave of the hypostyle halls, and on the under side of the lintels of the great doors, above the head of the king as he passed through on his way to the sanctuary.