increased size and the richness of their decoration to the general magnificence and highly developed taste of the century In which they were built. But it is enough for our present purpose to have indicated the places which they occupied in the vast architectural compositions which formed the tombs of a Seti or a Rameses.
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Fig. 175.—Painting in a royal tomb at Gournab. Amenophis II. upon the lap of a goddess. (Champollion, pl. 160.)
They had each a double function to fulfil. They were foundations made to the perpetual honour of a deceased king, chapels in which his fête-day could be kept and the memory of his achievements renewed; but they were at the same time temples in which the national gods were worshipped by himself and his descendants, in which those gods were perpetually adored for the services which
