Seti I (Menmaatre)
1294 BCE–1279 BCE · New-Kingdom · Thebes
Seti I (throne-name Menmaatre) was a strong king of Dynasty 19, reigning around 1294-1279 BCE (Shaw's conventional dates), who restored Egyptian power and prestige after the disruptions of the Amarna period. He campaigned actively in the Levant and against the Hittites to recover and secure the empire. He is especially celebrated for the artistic quality of his monuments: his temple at Abydos, decorated with reliefs of exceptional refinement and containing the Abydos King List (itself one of the selective royal lists that omit the Amarna kings), and his tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV17), the longest and finest in the entire valley. He was the father of Ramesses II, with whom these high points of Ramesside art are closely associated.
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His Theban royal seat; site of his great tomb KV17.
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