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Early Recording and Restoration |
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Engraving of a Seti I war scene by the Napoleonic Expedition in the early nineteenth century. |
While the importance of recording Egypt's rich monumental legacy was realized from the very start of the West's rediscovery of Egypt, the sheer size of the task has proved daunting. The earliest efforts to document Egypt's monumental legacy in the first half of the 19th Century by François Champollion, Hipollito Rosellini and Karl Richard Lepsius between the 1820s and 1840s were highly selective To date, only a small percentage of the Hypostyle Hall's vast trove of inscriptions has been scientifically recorded, including the war scenes of Seti I recorded by the Epigraphic Survey and the architrave inscriptions by Vincent Rondot
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