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the name of a temple). Thetextin general is very wellpreserved;
only the picture of the prince and parts of his title and name
are erased.
Thethirdmentionof the same personageoccursin a bas-relief
showingSeti I killing an enemy (Champ.,Mon.,297, 2 ; Not., 98, sq. ;
Ros.,Mon.st., 54, 2; Guieysse, 1. c, 68 ; cf. Leps., K., nr. 414-5).
Behindthe enemy the □ 1 ^5* U \l ^ 1 is standing, whose
picture is spoiled by chisel-marks, while the remaining bas-relief
is untouched. BehindSetia very smallprinceis seen, the o Ibeenhurt. Thislast figure representingthe later kingRamsesII,
who has here the same titles as at Abydos, injures the whole.
Therepresentation of the war of Seti I is divided into different
incidents,separatedonefromthe other by vertical lines. Ramses
is standing betweentwo of them ; his head is drawn through an
hieroglyphof the separating line,and the very small signsof his
name are partly engraved in one, partly in the second incident,
as if the figure had been onlyinsertedat a later timein the already
finishedbas-relief.
Theotherprinceappearsnowhereelse,but this can not surprise.
The reign of Seti I was apparently a short one; the highest
dateknown of it is the 9th year (the date, year 27, given in my
Handbuch,421,belongsto the reign of the last Ramesside). The
numberof larger texts of his time is small, andhis temples were
nearly all not finished by himself, but by Ramses II. Suchwas
the case withthe temple of Abydos, the large pillar-hallat Karnak,
and the temple of Qurnah.* If our prince diedbefore his father,
his name could not be expected to appear very often, the father
havingno time to engrave it, and Ramses II having no interest
to commemorate him.
We know fromthe inscriptions of the latter king,thathe tried to
makebelievethat he reigned fromhis earliestchildhoodor evenbefore
his birth. At Abydos he relates howhis father gavehimthe crown,* To the inscription aboutMaain this temple, whichI published in the
Annalesdu Musee Guimet,X, 561-73, andof which the first parthadbeen
alreadyeditedby Champ., Not.,I, 303, an interesting paralleltextis given by
Virey,Le tombeaude Rex-ma-ra, pi. 35-6, p. 152.
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