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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 ...
English: Book of Gates, 4th Division, 5th Hour, Tomb of Seti I. Based on illustration by Ernst Weidenbach for Richard Lepsius' 1849-1856 multi volume set of books, Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Band VI ("Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia", where "Ethiopia" was then a synonym for Nubia). All figures and hieroglyphs are in their same ...
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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 19th Dynasty ruler Seti I constructed his mortuary temple at what is now known as Gurna. [6] Part of his "Glorious temple of Seti Merenptah in the field of Amun which resides at the West of Thebes" was dedicated to his father Ramesses I, whose short reign prevented him from building his own, and was completed by his son Ramesses II.
KV17, the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Temple of Seti I .
Low relief of Seti I performing rituals for the god Amun, from Seti's mortuary temple at Abydos. Thirteenth century BC. Ancient Egyptian temples were meant as places for the gods to reside on earth. Indeed, the term the Egyptians most commonly used to describe the temple building, ḥwt-nṯr, means "mansion (or enclosure) of a god".
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