Two faience tiles inlaid with Seti II's throne names, late Dynasty 19, c.1237-1200 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum, under 3 inches?

Several pharoahs had Set as part of their name, Seti I (also spelled Sety I, Sethos I), Seti II (also spelled Sety II, Sethos II), and Setnakt (also spelled Setnakht, Setnakhte). Seti means "of Set", which indicates that he was consecrated to the god Set, othewise rendered "Man-of-Set" Setnakt means "Set is strong". Therefore, one of their cartouches is usually a good opportunity for a small Set find. Usually!

Yes, one of the would be Set sightings in the tiles above was scratched out in antiquity. Sadly, when a god fell into disfavor, the ancients got too busy with their destructive tools. Amun was also badly hit, and I've even seen evidence of a mutilated Ma'at.


Steatite scarab inscribed with the names of Seti I, Dynasty 19, reign of Seti 1 (ca. 1294-1279B.C)
Metropolitan Museum, under 2 inches?

Yet there are sometimes puzzling things done with Seti I's cartouche. The Met museum has a statue of him, which due to my bad photography, we only have this poor photo:


Black granite statue of Seti I, Dynasty 19, reign of Seti I (ca. 1294-1279 B.C)
Rogers Fund, 1922, MMA 22.2.21

As the info card explains, Seti I is dedicating offerings to Osirus and other gods of the Thinite nome. A look at his cartouche reveals it doesn't quite look like the one above:

Here's another odd cartouche of Seti I, this one on a cramp that was used to strengthen the joints between blocks in Seti I's Temple at Abydos, and now at the Ashmolean museum:


photo courtesy of Jon Bodsworth's egyptarchive.co.uk)

There's an explanation in a footnote in TeVelde's book (page 132):

"The name of Sethos was not written with the hieroglyph of the Seth-animal, but with the sign of Osiris, sometimes together with the symbol of Isis. This is an example of enigmatic writing: the Osiris hieroglyph has the value Š and the Isis symbol the value T. Together with the flowering reeds this gives Š(w)t(y) (A. Piankoff, Le nom du roi Sethos en égyptien, BIFAO 47 (1948), p. 175-177). This does not invalidate the opinion of Kristensen: 'We can only see it as a deliberate equation of Seth with Osiris, a demonstration or a profession of their essential identity.' (W.B. Kristensen, Symbool en Werhelijkheid, p. 294)."

In such way Š(w)t(y) is pronounced the same as Seti's name, As TeVelde explains, "the Upper-Egyptian pronunciation may have been Sut, evolved to Set," (or more properly, since I can't find special html characters for these words, see TeVelde, pages 2-3:

Here is the symbol of Isis, which you can see in both the statue's and the cramp's cartouche:

   
Isis Knot, aka 'Tyet' or 'Tet' - First image from Wikipedia, second scanned from Budge's 2 volume dictionary

Fortunately, most of his cartouches feature the usual rendering:


(Full titulary underneath, from Budge)


Photographer John Ross doesn't give its location but, he does offer large size prints of it

The one cartouche has some variance, but 'Menmaatre' is clearly the standard version, and Set is clearly identified.

The Brooklyn Museum has an interesting model of a temple gateway, featuring Seti I's cartouche:


This photo shows only the front side, but I share extensive imagery and info in a page all about the model,
including some of the photos by the webmistress of "Setsightings.com"


Capture of Seti I on the side, showing his cartouche with the Set hieroglyph...


Zeroing in on his cartouche... (this is from the other side)

As I looked at photos from Karnak at Photobucket, I saw many of the amateur photographers had snapped various cartouches, and I saved them to disk to study later with the Budge book. Many of them on the underside of lintels, thus more protected from the sun, still have remnants of color on them. Then I spied one I recognized, "One of the Seti's":


Original photo by Sharon Hardacre


Close up of the cartouche...


Seti I cartouche


Seti II cartouche

Although it doesn't exactly resemble Budge's examples, I think it's Seti I's cartouche. There's another lintel in Karnak very similar to this one which features his Menmaatre cartouche. I suspect they are near each other.