Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. architectural elements
7. [structural elements and components for structural elements]
8. structural elements
9. [supporting and resisting elements]
10. [piers and pier components]
11. piers (supporting elements)
12. [piers by form]

Anotations

Scope note:

Piers with an engaged figure of Osiris on the front, attached in such a manner that the pier, not the statue, supports the entablature; used in ancient Egyptian and Egyptian revival architecture. For statues that themselves directly support a superstructure, see descriptors collocated under the guide term "."