This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...of Seti I. and Ramses II., Ani and Amenape a son of Pauer. The reign of Seti belongs to that period in the history of the country during which Egyptian art enjoyed the peculiar favour of the king, and answered to his Diir. xix. THE BUILDINGS OF SETI I. 253 patronage in the most worthy manner by the creation of real ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...of Seti I. and Ramses II., Ani and Amenape a son of Pauer. The reign of Seti belongs to that period in the history of the country during which Egyptian art enjoyed the peculiar favour of the king, and answered to his Diir. xix. THE BUILDINGS OF SETI I. 253 patronage in the most worthy manner by the creation of real master-pieces. The Hall of Columns at Karnak, in so far as it was carried out during the king's life, and the temple of Osiris at Abydos are works of the highest order, the splendour of which consists, above all else, in the beauty of the sculpture, even to the hieroglyphic characters. The celebrated tomb also of Seti is one of the most remarkable achievements of Theban art. It is the one called after the name of its discoverer, 'Belzoni's tomb, ' and to this day forms the chief point of attraction to visitors to the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes. It contains an abundance of pictures and inscriptions, which are chiefly mythological, but which also involve a special significance in relation to astronomy, as do the very instructive roofpictures of the so-called Golden Chamber. Unique in its kind is the mythological substance of a long text, found in a side chamber of the same tomb, and which (as M. Naville has proved) has for its subject a description of the destruction of the corrupt human race. As Seti had erected one of the most splendid works to the god Amen on the right bank of the Theban metropolis, so also at his command there rose on the western bank of the river that wonderful temple, which he dedicated to the memory of his deceased father Ea-messu I. I mean the 'Memnonium' of Seti at Old Gurnah. In many places on this monument, which belonged to the West country and consequently to the realm of Osiris, the king avoids giving h...
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