Abydos: The holy city in the ancient Egypt (Part – 3)

By Asad Russel – 

After Part – 2
At the Abydos what to see:
In the hall near the back on the side walls projecting piers of two shoes that the Djed column worshipping the Seti of Upper and Lower Egypt the combined crown while wearing. There are seven sanctuaries in the back side of the Inner Hypostyle Hall, in the temple the best reliefs which contains. To the Seti I, Horus, Isis, Amun, Osiris, Re-Herakhte and Ptah are dedicated the small sanctuaries. From the slabs of regular carved with the false vaults is roofed each one of them and in the false doors end but only for the Osiris sanctuary except, to the inner sanctuaries of his a real door which has.

By the gods the recognition of the pharaoh’s emphasize in the Sanctuary of Seti the reliefs, into the temple leading him who are shown and the northern wall along Upper and Lower Egypt the two lands uniting ceremonially, from the Thoth and from the Iunmutef the High Priest who wearing leopardskin for the offerings a list receives the Seti. From the Lower Egypt deities as hawk-headed and from the Upper Egypt by the jackal headed borne on a palanquin the temple leaving Seti is shown lastly.

There are inner sanctuaries of Osiris in the back of the seven sanctuaries, respectively to the Isis, Set and Horus dedicated with the chapels of three side. For their colors which is bright retain much in these chapels the reliefs, but in the few decades of previous from now by mold have been blackened.

The Hall of Sokar and Nerfertum which is the columned hall into that leads of the Seti’s Sanctuary’s the nearest portal, the cycle of death and rebirth repressing the deities in the north, of Osiris into the cult who were integrated of the temple in the wing of southern. With the hawk’s head the Sokar and a lotus blossom with crowned in the form of human and lion the Nefertum Seti receiving includes the reliefs. The phallus grasping to life Osiris returns, while on the opposite wall of a hawk in the form over him hovers the Isis. Anything in to see a flashlight requires the Chapel of Nerfertum.

From the Seti’s Sanctuary further another portal which is little into the Gallery of Kings which leads, into the right wall carved the predecessors of Seti’s for the list named. With custom in accordance from the list are omitted with the heirs of him the Akhenaten and Hatshepsut, and of Osiris the enemy from the Seth to distance himself in order instead of Menmare Seti-Merneptah as the Menmare Osiris-Merneptah is listed the own name of Seti. Facing the list are depicted the Seti and Ramses II, to the historians and archaeologists very useful which has proved.

To the great Wepwawet running and a bull harnessing of Seti and Ramses a relief leads past a side corridor the Gallery of Kings from. To the Osireion behind the temple leads a rear door, of Seti I the dummy tomb or the cenotaph. The mummies of pharaohs did not contains the Osireions but between the Osiris and Pharaoh’s Ka an association of close to promote were intended. The Temple of Ramses II also worth a visit which situated 300 meters northwest from the Temple of Seti I.        

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