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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Seti I Biography SETI, The name of two Egyptian kings of the nineteenth dynasty. SETI I, the second King of this dynasty, was the son and successor of Rameses I (q.v.) and reigned for some 10 years from about 1350 B.C. (Breasted puts the beginning of his reign 1313 B.C. In the first year of his reign he made an effort to recover some of the Syrian possessions of Egypt lost during the internal dissensions which marked the close of the eighteenth dynasty. He marched as far as the northern border of Palestine, ravaging and plundering as he went. Here, however, his progress seems to have been effectually checked. On his return to Egypt he proceeded in triumph up the Nile and later recorded his exploits on the walls of the great temple of Karnak. Later in his reign Seti successfully defended his western frontier against the Libyans. This campaign was followed by an invasion of Galilee and a war against the Hittites. Among the many buildings erected by this monarch the most important are the Memnonium (q.v.) at Abydos, the memorial temple at Kurnah (q.v.) and the great hypostyle hall at Karnak (q.v.), which was completed by his son Rameses II. Seti's magnificent tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near Thebes, was discovered in 1817 by Belzoni and is commonly called Belzoni's tomb. It is nearly 350 feet long and consists of a number of halls, corridors, and chambers hewn out of the solid rock. The mummy of the King was found in 1881 at Deir el Bahri. The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XX (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 739. |