Great Temple of Abydos Site Features

Access to the temple is via a short ramp that leads to a portico with twelve rectangular pillars. Three entrances are provided and each door leads (after crossing the two hypostyle halls) to three of the seven chapels of the temple. The main door leads to the shrine of Amen. Further to the right, other doors lead to the Shrines of Osiris and Horus.

In the hypostyle halls, a scene from the foundation of the temple can be seen. Sety and the goddess Seshat determine the outline of the building and lay the first stones. Another scene shows the divine birth of the king. On another wall, King Rameses II is purified by Thoth and Hathor. Farther on, he stands before Osiris and Isis and offers them a statuette of himself. Other depictions show the king incensing Osiris and then offering him a statuette of Ma'at, the Truth-Justice. Another scene shows the pharaoh erecting the pillar Djed.