Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos (Volume 1 & 2 Set)
Volume 1, Wall Scenes and Volume 2, Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions
By (author) Sameh Iskander By (author) Ogden Goelet
This lavish three-book set includes the following: Volume 1 (two paarts) and Volume 2 of The Temple of Ramesses at Abydos II, producing an up-to-date and comprehensive architectural, photographic, and epigraphic record of the temple.
Of all the enormous monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia that Ramesses II (the Great; ca. 1279-1212 BCE) left behind, his temple at Abydos, built early in his reign, stands as one of his most elegant monuments, with its simple architectural layout and dramatic and graceful painted relief scenes. Though best known for its dramatic reliefs depicting the battle of Kadesh, the temple also offers a wealth of information about religious and social life in ancient Egypt. It reflects, for example, the strenuous efforts of the early Ramessides to reestablish the Osiris cult in Egypt-and particularly at Abydos-in the aftermath of the Amarna period. Over a seven-year period, the authors of The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos conducted a field project with the aim of producing an up-to-date and comprehensive architectural, photographic, and epigraphic record of the temple. This lavish two-volume (3 part) set includes the following: Volume 1, “Wall Scenes” (Part 1 “Exterior Walls and Courts” and Part 2, “Chapels and First Pylon”), which contains more than two hundred detailed line drawings–accurately rendered according to modern epigraphical standards–of the temple’s carved relief scenes, placed alongside their corresponding full-color photographs, and Volume 2, “Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions,” which contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple. The result is a masterpiece of modern epigraphic research and publication.
- By (author) Sameh Iskander
- By (author) Ogden Goelet
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