Abydos - Temple of Sethos I - Slaughter Court

From the south end of the Gallery of the Kings, where there are Coptic inscriptions (prayers) in red paint, a doorway leads into the slaughter court, with a colonnade (never completed) of seven columns. The scenes and hieroglyphics on the walls were sketched in color in the reign of Sethos I, but only a few of them were later finished as sunk reliefs. They depict Sethos sacrificing to various deities and (in the lower row) the slaughter and cutting up of sacrificial animals. The screen between the first column and the left hand wall was intended to block the view from the Gallery of the Kings into the slaughter court.

Adjoining this court are four unfinished rooms, two of which are closed. In three of them the scenes on