Abydos - Temple of Sethos I First Hypostyle Hall

The central doorway leads into the First Hypostyle Hall (170ft/52m by 35ft/11m), the roof of which (partly fallen in) is supported on 24 papyrus cluster columns with bud capitals. The columns are so arranged that the five central processional aisles leading to the chapels are flanked by two pairs of columns, while the two outermost aisles are bounded on one side by the walls of the hall. The reliefs on the shafts of the columns show the King in the presence of the god to whose chapel the aisle leads, sometimes accompanied by the other deities of his triad. The carving is of mediocre quality; the reliefs date from the time of Ramesses II, who caused Sethos I's bas-reliefs to be chiseled out and replaced by sunk reliefs. Notable among the