Sety I (Part 3).
The Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak. In 1302 BCE (approximately) the pharaoh of Egypt Men-Ma’at-Ra Sety I commissioned a remarkable monument. A hall of columns, near the entrance of Karnak sanctuary, would be a gathering place for the gods and the faithful. This hall, called “Sety is Effective in the House of Amun,” is now one of Egypt’s most famous (and most photographed) monuments…
Details and sources:
- Date: c. 1302 BCE.
- Music: Keith Zizza and Bettina Joy de Guzman.
- The Hypostyle Hall: Publications by The University of Chicago Epigraphic Survey at https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/great-hypostyle-hall-karnak-volume-1-part-1-wall-reliefs and https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/oip-142-great-hypostyle-hall-temple-amun-karnak
- Texts: Kenneth Kitchen’s Ramesside Inscriptions volume 1. Hieroglyph versions at Internet Archive, English translations at Abercromby Press.
- Peter Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh, out now from Lockwood Press.
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“The Temple, ‘Sety Beloved-of-Amun is Effective in the House of Amun’”
Reconstruction of the Hypostyle Hall’s original appearance (Wikimedia).
Reconstruction of the ancient colours (Lepsius, Denkmaler).
Areas decorated by Sety I’s artisans before his death (Memphis.edu).
Sety offers the Hypostyle Hall to Amun-Ra and Mut (Nelson, Hypostyle).
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Bibliography
- E. Blyth, Karnak: Evolution of a Temple (2006).
- P. J. Brand, ‘The Monuments of Seti I and Their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Toronto (1998).
- P. J. Brand, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis (2000).
- P. J. Brand et al., The Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Amun at Karnak Volume 1, Part 2: Translation and Commentary (2018).
- S. Costa, ‘On the Scenes of the King Receiving the Sed-Fests in the Theban Temples of the Ramesside Period’, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 35 (2006), 61–74.
- A. Dodson, Sethy I King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife (2019).
- K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions: Translated and Annotated: Translations, I (2017).
- H. H. Nelson, The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak Volume 1, Part 1: The Wall Reliefs, ed. W.J. Murnane (1981).
- J. Revez et al., ‘Gaining New Perspectives on the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak Through the Use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Other Emerging Techniques’, in R. Lucarelli et al. (eds), Ancient Egypt, New Technology (2023), 476–511.
- A. Spalinger, ‘Some Revisions of Temple Endowments in the New Kingdom’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1991), 21–39.
- Memphis.edu: ‘Field Reports’, https://www.memphis.edu/hypostyle/project/field_reports.php
- ‘Hypostyle Hall – Digital Karnak’. https://digitalkarnak.ucsc.edu/hypostyle-hall/
Great, now I’m imagining Amun and the others slowly walking up to Seti I sheepishly requesting money and Seti has to loan them some quick cash.