Sometimes a few pillars, left standing in the rock at the time of excavation, give this chamber the aspect of a little hypostyle hall.

Four such pillars decorate the chapels of Ameni and Khnumhotep at Beni Hasan (fig.

153).

Other chapels there contain six or eight, and are very irregular in plan.

One tomb, unfinished, was in the first instance a simple oblong hall, with a barrel roof and six columns.
Later on, it was enlarged on the right side, the new part forming a kind of flat-roofed portico supported on four columns (fig.