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The Temple of Seti I is now known as the Great Temple of Abydos. In antiquity, the temple was known as " Menmaatre Happy in Abydos," and is a significant historical site in Abydos . [ 1 ] Abydos is a significant location with its connection to kingship due to being the burial site of the proto-kings from the Pre-Dynastic period , First Dynasty ...
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c. 1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. [4] [5] He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.
The Abydos King List, also known as the Abydos Table, is a list of the names of 76 kings of ancient Egypt, found on a wall of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, Egypt. It consists of three rows of 38 cartouches (borders enclosing the name of a king) in each row.
The temple seems to have been constructed toward the end of the reign of Seti, and may have been completed by his son Ramesses the Great after his death. [2] One of the chambers contains a shrine dedicated to Seti's father Ramesses I, who reigned a little under two years, and did not construct a mortuary temple for himself.
Today, Abydos is notable for the memorial temple of Seti I, which contains an inscription from the Nineteenth Dynasty known to the modern world as the Abydos King List. This is a chronological list showing cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until Seti I's father, Ramesses I . [ 4 ]
The tomb of Seti I, also known by its tomb number, KV17, is the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Located in Egypt 's Valley of the Kings , It is also known by the names "Belzoni's tomb", "the Tomb of Apis", and "the Tomb of Psammis, son of Nechois".
Dorothy Louise Eady (16 January 1904 – 21 April 1981), also known as Omm Sety or Om Seti (Arabic: أم سيتي), was a British antiques caretaker and folklorist.She was keeper of the Abydos Temple of Seti I and draughtswoman for the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
The Hyksos King Apophis is recorded as worshiping Set exclusively, ... most notably Seti I (literally, "man of Set") ... The Temple of Set, founded in 1975, venerates ...