The tomb of Sethos I was published by G. Lefébure, Le Tombeau de Séti Ier in Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission Archéologique Française au Caire ii (1886). The publication was quite remarkable for its time but the degree of accuracy of the recording is no longer entirely satisfactory. Furthermore, the tomb had been accessible as a popular attraction for visitors to the Valley of the Kings for some seventy years before that and so any early record, especially if it predates the tomb's recording in 1883, is very valuable. Before the advent of photography, squeezes represented the most accurate copies possible (they are, in fact, true facsimile copies).

All the descriptions and the plan have been taken from B. Porter, R. L. B. Moss and E. W. Burney, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, i Part 2 (Oxford, 1964). Because the coverage of reliefs recorded on these squeezes is far from complete, only descriptions of the relevant scenes are given here.

The squeezes in the Archive of the Griffith Institute were made, or acquired, by the Revd. Henry Stobart (1824-1895) in Egypt in 1854-5.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105a
Part of Litany of Re.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105b
Part of Litany of Re.

(25) and (26) Sethos I seated holding sceptre, with table of bread and two figures of Inmutef. Two registers beyond, I, series of scenes, priests performing rites before royal statues (including cloaked priests squatting on stools), II, Opening the Mouth texts with small scenes, priests before royal statue, King's shadow, group with Inmutef, butcher and goddess, and Inmutef before royal statue below. Base at (26), winged uraeus before cartouches, and litany of Eye of Horus.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105c
Upper part of upper figure of Inmutef.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.88
Upper part of lower figure of Inmutef.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.89
Upper part of priest purifying statue of Sethos I, from register I, 3rd scene from left.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105d
Statue of Sethos I (1st from left) in register I.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105e
Three priests behind statue of Sethos I (9th group from left) in register I.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105f
Priests performing rites before statue of Sethos I (2nd group from right) in register I.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105g
Inmutef and butcher in register II.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105h
Part of four columns of text.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105i
Part of four columns of text.

(27) and (28) Offering list and litany of Eye of Horus. Two registers beyond, I, series of scenes, priests performing rites before royal statues (including priest offering incense to iaret serpent, priest with foreleg, and group with butcher), II, ritual texts, &c., and two scenes, priests (one with foreleg) before royal statue. Base at (28), winged uraeus, offering list, and (in niche) litany of Eye of Horus.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.90
Statue of Sethos I and figure of woman (or goddess), from group with butcher, from register I, 1st scene from left.

(30) Seven scenes, 1, Sethos I embraced by Hathor, 2, before Anubis, 3, offering wine to [Isis], 4, before Harsiesi, 5, offering wine to Hathor, 6, before Osiris-Onnophris, 7, Ptah facing in.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.93
Upper part of Anubis, from scene 2.

Griffith Institue squeeze 4.105j
Upper part of Sethos I in scene 4.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.92
Upper part of Harsiesi in scene 4.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105k
Cartouches of Sethos I in scene 4.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105l
Text and part of headdress of Hathor in scene 5.

(31) Seven scenes. 1, Sethos I, followed by [Harsiesi], receiving life from Hathor, 2-6, as at (30), 7, Sethos I before Nefertem with sa emblem.

Griffith Institute squeezes 4.105m and 4.105n
Cartouches of Sethos I in scene 4.

Griffith Institute squeezes 4.91 and 4.91a.
Upper part of Sethos I, probably from scene 5.

Griffith Institute squeezes 4.94, 4.94a and 4.94b
Cartouches of Sethos I, from above King in scene 5.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105o
Upper part of Hathor in scene 5.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105p
Upper part of Osiris-Onnophris in scene 6.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105q

Cartouches of Sethos I in scene 6.

(42) Side-room L. Thickness of doorway, Sethos I with ka, offering ointment. Walls, Book of Gates, 3rd division, three registers.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.95
4th jackal-headed god from right, in register I.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105r
6th jackal-headed god from right, in register I.

(45) Book of Imi-Duat, 7th division, three registers, I-III, beginning on entrance wall.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.98
Human-headed bird in register I (2nd figure from right).

(46) Book of Imi-Duat, 6th division, three registers, I-III, beginning on entrance wall.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.96
Baboon-headed god in register II (1st seated figure from right).

Griffith Institute squeezes 4.97 and 4.97a
Crocodile-headed god in register III (1st figure from right).

(47) Book of Imi-Duat, 8th division and end of 6th division, three registers, I-III.

Griffith Institute squeezes 4.99 and 4.99a
Animal-headed god in register I (4th figure from right).

Griffith Institute squeezes 4.100 and 4.100a
Goat(?)-headed god in register I (5th figure from right).

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.101
Bull-headed god in register I (6th figure from right).

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.102
9th figure from right.

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.103
Door with text (2nd door from right).

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.104
Animal-headed god in register I (2nd figure from right).

Griffith Institute squeeze 4.105
Animal-headed god in register I (3rd figure from right).

(January 22, 2007)

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