buying SETI I
New Kingdom, Ramesside
Nineteenth Dynasty
Metropolitan Museum – New York
Size 8 x14 x 20 cm.
Description:
He was the second pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. Son of Ramesses I and Sitra, between 1303 and 1279 BC. He was a soldier, like his father. Its name comes from Seth, the god of war, arms and the army, whom Seti I served as a priest before becoming a soldier.
Like his father Ramses I and later his son, Ramses II, they fought to restore Egypt's power and prestige to its neighbors.
The reliefs of some of his battles are represented on the outer walls of the temple of Karnak, and he devised and began the construction of the great hypostyle hall in this same temple, his son Ramses II finished it. He reopened gold mines in the eastern desert and Nubia. Another of its grandiose constructions was its temple of Abydos, one of the most beautiful in Egypt. The delicacy of its reliefs is impressive and the effects it achieved with the sunlight entering through its skylights are spectacular.
His tomb is one of the most beautiful in the entire Valley of the Kings. As in Abydos, the decoration is magnificent although it is unfinished.
This kneeling statue of Seti I is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It shows the king kneeling and making offerings to Osiris, and was probably destined for his temple at Abydos. The same artistic style that we can appreciate in the temple is observed in this statue.
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