The master consequently outlined them afresh, and on the same squared surface, without effacing the first drawing.

Here, at all events, the mistake was discovered in time.

At Karnak, on the north wall of the hypostyle hall, and again at Medinet Habu, the faults of the original design were not noticed till the sculptor had finished his part of the work.

The figures of Seti I.and Rameses III.

were thrown too far back, and threatened to overbalance themselves; so they were smoothed over with cement and cut anew.