Merci Marc Chartier Belzoni, first of all men living on the globe to enter the tomb of SETI I in the beginning of October 1817, Belzoni - who has already discovered many tombs (KV 16, KV 19, KV 21, KV 23, 25 KV, KV 30, KV31...) - continues, with a score of fellahs, surveys undertaken in the Valley of the Kings. He knows that a significant number of hypogea remain to the update. In this 18 October 1817 he discovered The Tomb who will forever remain his most beautiful discovery: that of SETI I. It will also also called tombe Belzoni and will be later referenced KV 17. I can call the day of the discovery one of the most fortunate of my life... He describes what he feels then: the joy felt by entering the first of all men currently living on the globe, in one of the most beautiful and largest monuments of ancient Egypt; in a monument that had been lost to the world, and he has found so well-preserved that one reportedly said that it had just finish it a little before our arrival. As soon as he enters the Tomb, he is captivated by the beauty of what is offered to his eyes: I judged, by the ceiling paintings and hieroglyphics in bas-relief is distinguished through the rubble we were masters of the entry of a magnificent Tomb. On the wall opposite the entrance, he admires one of the finest pieces of Egyptian art, the apotheosis of the hero of the Tomb: these are four life-size figures: one of them representing the God Osiris seated on his throne, receives the homage of a hero that introduces an another Hawk-headed deity. Behind the throne, the fourth figure resembles a woman attached to the service of the first of the gods. The entire group is surrounded by hieroglyphics and framed in symbolic figures richly executed; a globe, whose wings extend on the whole, dominates the figures, and a row of snakes Crown the entire array. The tomb is deep, sinking of 137 m in the Theban mountains by 7 corridors and has 10 rooms. It is one of the most beautiful tombs and completely decorated the Valley. It is also one of those where the quality of the paintings reached the highest perfection. As it progresses, corridor into rooms, Belzoni says: we noticed that as we went along, these paintings were becoming more perfect. They were coated with a varnish which the slick produced a nice effect: the figures were painted on a white background. Then, continuing its advance, it happens in a small room, decorated as the rest of beautiful figures figures in low relief and painted. These paintings were all executed with such perfection that I thought having to call this room the beauties. The description of the room of the sarcophagus is also astonished: but what this room offered more important to our eyes, it was a sarcophagus (now in the Sir John Soanes Museumof London) placed at the Center, who is not unique in the world. This magnificent Tomb, having nine feet five inches long on three foot seven inches wide, is made of the finest oriental Alabaster: having only two inches thick, it becomes transparent when you place a light behind one of its walls... However, the absence of cover is a huge disappointment, because it means that the grave has been desecrated in antiquity. In 1817, the key to reading hieroglyphics is not yet discovered and is therefore not in Belzoni to know that this tomb is the home of the great Pharaoh Sethi Ier eternity. In reference to the carcass of a bull embalmed with asphalt which is found, it will be so referred to as the Tomb of Apis, or sometimes tombe Belzoni. In 1829, while he is in Qurna, Champollion is totally under the spell of this tomb. He had received admiration at the sight of the life-size by Belzoni replenishment. But on-site, the beauty of the scenes it delights at the highest point. Extracted from Litanies de Ré, of book of the dead, of the Amduat,The book of Gatesor even theopening of the mouth ritual, they reveal a quality that continues to arouse admiration. Admiration which will also lead him to commit a sacrilege since it will be cut to chisel a scene painted on a pillar in order to bring it to the Louvre. This exceptional Tomb will see scroll a significant number of Egyptologists, among the most prestigious: James Burton (1825), Robert Hay (1826), Howard Carter (1902), Alexandre Barsanti (1913), Harry (Burton (1921-1928), Theban mapping Project (1979), Erik Hornung (1991), ARCE (1996-2000), and Zahi Hawass (especially 2003).) This list is not exhaustive, but find it me nice to add Sheikh Ali Abdel Rassoul who fumbled himself this tomb in the 1960s, convinced that the treasure of SETI I remain always buried... but we will return. MG The harvest of the gods, Jean-Jacques Fiechter, Julliard, 1994 Belzoni, Travels in Egypt and in Nubia thebteanmappingproject/sites/browse_tomb_831.html guardians.net/hawass/Press%20Releases/secrets_of_the_valley_of_the_kings.htm drhawass/blog/mysterious-tunnel-tomb-seti-i t3wy.org/?page_id=896 Illustration: the goddess Hathor welcomes Sethi 1st Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Nouvel Empire (c. 1550 - c. 1069 BC) * to see the whole of each of Egypt-News : egyptophile.blogspot.fr/2014/06/egyptophile-un-recueil-des-unes-degypte.html?view=flipcard
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