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Mortuary Temple of Sethos I - Chapel of Ramesses Description
Entering the left hand part of the temple from the colonnade, we come first to the Chapel of Ramesses I, a small room with two columns. On the right hand and left hand walls are low reliefs, apparently usurped by Ramesses II; on the right he is seen kneeling before Amun, Khons and the deified Sethos, with the goddess Mut behind him. Off the chapel open three chambers. On the right hand and left hand walls of the central chamber Sethos I is depicted burning incense before the barque of Amun and anointing the statue of his father, Ramesses I, with his finger; on the rear wall is a double false door with a representation of Ramesses I's Osiris coffin, on which is perched Isis in the form of a falcon. The other two chambers, built by Ramesses
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