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To this dynasty belong the most beautiful monuments even visible in Abydos, that it is those constructed by Sety I, the temple of Ramesses II and the inscriptions of the Osireion that we owe to Merenptah, son of Ramesses II.

Sety I made there build several temples: a chapel in honor of his father, Ramesses I, his beautiful  temple and the Osireion. In a stele dedicated to his father placed in the chapel, Sety  makes a touching picture of the  family solidarity around Ramesses I (Vandersleyen,1995). On present time, the rests of this chapel are at the Metropolitan Museum in New York  (see below the navigation bar).

In this site, an important part is dedicated to the temple of Sety I. This temple owes its relative good present state probably  to the fact that it was in part sanded and therefore irretrievable. The first mention of this temple must be carried to the assets of the Father Sicard in 1718 (Sauneron, Bifao65) that makes a description of it and indicate that the rooms are sanded up.  In 1731, they are always sanded up. In his  work, Mariette indicates that 10 years before his arrival, the temple was again under the sands. He is disappointed besides by the inscriptions of the temple, finding them repetitive and less interesting than those of the Greco-Roman temples of Egypt. I duplicate a part of the plate 33 of the Ist  volume of Mariette where he drew the walls of the chapel of Sety.  While comparing with the present state that you can see while clicking  here, one can see  that the inscriptions deteriorated since that time.

On the drawing of Mariette, one sees that the king is followed by  his ka  with the Horus name of the king on his head.

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