Seti I giving offering to the gods on the side of a temple gateway model
©Joan Lansberry, June, 2008
Here is the full view of the model, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum
Here is the full view of the model, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum
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One of the more interesting pieces at the Brooklyn Museum is the model of a temple gateway, commissioned by Seti I. I decided to seek out more info on the temple model, and Peter Brands' _Monuments of Seti I_ came to my aid.
"This celebrated piece is the base of a 'model' temple of Seti I from
Heliopolis. It was found at Tell el-Yahudia by fellahin sometime
before 1875 and eventually acquired by the Brooklyn Museum. Only the base of
the model is preserved, bearing sockets that once held now missing elements of
a gateway with statuary and obelisks for a pylon gateway of Seti I. Badawy
developed a largely plausible reconstruction of these lost architectural
elements."("Catalog of Monuments", page 143)
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