Seti I

3/27/2014 06:34:00 PM

Hello everydody
 today we are going to talk about king seti the first ,(he was a son of Ramsise I and also the father of the most important king Ramesise II or Ramesise the Great who will be the king of our next article )
so lets start

*the name of king seti I means ,

( He who belongs to the god Seth),

*Battle reliefs in the Great Hypostyle Hall in

 karnak show him as a triumphant warrior king

 in two campaigns ; one occurred in Southern 

Palestine against the Shasu-Bedouin , 

the other took place in the Orontes Valley in Syria,

 where he repelled Hittite troops and regained 

the town of Kadesh .

* building activities of Seti I included the restoration

 of temples from Elephantine in the South to

 Heliopolis in the North. At Thebes, he 

constructed the Great Hypostyle Hall in the

 temple of Amun at karnak and on the 

western side of the Nile ,he built a mortuary 

temple at Qurna and a tomb

 (KV 17 in the Valley of the kings)

With colorful reliefs and an 

amazing ceiling. 



In Abydos, Seti I 

constructed a mortuary temple for the great 

gods of Egypt and his royal ancestors, the 

kings of Egypt from Menes until his reign. 




To secure the revenues of this temple, 

Sethi I reopened and explored the golden 

mines of the Eastern Desert and Nubia, laying

 out caravan roads and drilling wells for 

expeditions into that region.


He inaugurated a splendid summer residence

 in the Eastern Delta that later, under his son 

Ramesses II, was to become the capital of 

Egypt per Ramesses .



*Sethi I was buried in a magnificent 

sarcophagus of Egyption Alabaster 

that was decorated lavishly inside and outside with 

scenes and texts from the Book of Gates. 


 mummy of king Seti I was reburied in the cachette of Al 

Deir Al Bahari. 



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