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The Second Pylon |
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Seti I took the throne ca. 1300 BCE and immediately set to work converting Horemheb's courtyard into the Hypostyle Hall. After Hall was built, Seti I faced a dilemma. He was ready to decorate it with reliefs, but the two buildings were attached to each other, and the rear wall of the Second Pylon was now also the west wall of the Hypostyle Hall. It was also covered with reliefs of his father Ramesses I. The existing inscriptions had to go; they were in the wrong style of carving and too large besides. They had to be erased to make way for more appropriate scenes. With a degree of conscience that both his father and son lacked, however, Seti carved some of the new scenes in the name of his deceased father as compensation for Ramesses I's inscriptions which now had to be erased.
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This scene of Ramesses I on the west wall of the Hypostyle Hall was made by
Seti I in honor of his deceased father.