The details, either incised or modelled upon the clay before firing, were afterwards painted with such colours as might be suitable.

The lotus flowers and leaves which were carried along the bottom of the walls or the length of the cornices, were, on the contrary, made up of independent pieces; each colour being a separate morsel cut to fit exactly into the pieces by which it was surrounded (fig.

239).

This temple was rifled at the beginning of the present century, and some figures of prisoners brought thence have been in the Louvre collection ever since the time of Champollion.

All that remained of the building and its decoration was demolished a few years ago by certain dealers in antiquities, and the _debris_ are now dispersed in all directions.