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This work was completed in 1933 consisting of a four-volume work titled The Temple of King Sethos I At Abydos consisting of photos and drawings of the chapels of Osiris, Isis, Horus, Amen-Re, Re-Harakhti, Ptah-Sokar, and Seti, The Osiris Complex, and the Second Hypostyle Hall. [13] John Baines worked the site in 1979 and again from 1981-1983.
The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, Volume IV: The Second Hypostyle Hall Copied by Amice M. Calverley, with the assistance of Myrtle F. Broome, and edited by Alan H. Gardiner The photographic archive produced by Calverley became an irreplaceable resource for studying the temple, and was used by the Egypt Exploration Society in its further ...
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 .
Sethos is the name used in ancient Greek historiography for several Egyptian pharaohs: Seti I (1290–1279 BC), 19th dynasty; Seti II (1200/1199–1194/1193), 19th dynasty; Shebitku (714–705 BC), 25th dynasty; It may also refer to either of two temples of Sethos: Mortuary Temple of Seti I at Qurna; Memorial Temple of Seti I at Abydos, Egypt
Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians (French: Séthos, histoire, ou Vie tirée des monumens, anecdotes de l'ancienne Égypte, traduite d'un manuscrit grec) is an influential fantasy novel originally published in six volumes at Paris in 1731 by the French abbé Jean Terrasson.
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.
The temple was entirely rebuilt on a larger scale by Pepi I in the Sixth Dynasty. He placed a great stone gateway to the temenos, an outer wall and gateway, with a colonnade between the gates. His temple was about 40 ft × 50 ft (12 m × 15 m) inside, with stone gateways front and back, showing that it was of the processional type.
Limestone Stele of Canaanite God Mekal, 13th C. BCE. One of the steles, discovered in 1928, [10] states that the temple was dedicated to “Mekal, the god, the lord of Beth Shean”; [11] an otherwise unknown Canaanite god – the stele itself is our main source of knowledge about Mekal.