LA VALLEE DES ROIS KV17

Tombe de Séthi I^er, XIX^e dynastie.
 

Entrée de la tombe de Séthi Ier, lors de sa découverte par Belzoni en 1817.

Autre désignation de la tombe:

• 12, Hay
• 17, Lepsius
• 3, Champollion
• 6, Belzoni
• Belzoni's Tomb, Tomb of Apis, Tomb of Psammis, son of Necho, Thomas Young
• W, Burton

Elle est considérée comme la plus importante. C'est la première demeure d'éternité entièrement couverte de textes et de reliefs. On y découvrit une carcasse de taureau, des fragments de statuettes momiformes et diverses statues et un sarcophage en albâtre.
 

• Belzoni, G. B., Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia, and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice, and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon, 2 vol., Murray, London, 1821.
• Belzoni, G. B., Description of the Egyptian Tomb, Discovered by G. Belzoni, Murray, London, 1821.
• Berkeley Theban Mapping Project, The Berkeley Map of the Theban Necropolis, Report of the Second Season, 1979, University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1979.
• Bonomi, J. et Sharpe, S, The Alabaster Sarcophagus of Oimenepthah I, King of Egypt, Now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Longman, Roberts and Green, London, 1864.
• Budge, E. A. W., An Account of the Sarcophagus of Seti I, King of Egypt, B.C. 1370, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 1908.
• Carter, H., Report of Work Done in Upper Egypt, 1903-1904, n°6, pp., ASAE, Le Caire, 1905.
• Donadoni, S. F., La decorazione della tomba di Seti I nella Valle dei Re, Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, 1966.
• Hepper, N. F., Amelia Edwards' Sethos I Shabti, n°86, pp., JEA, London, 2000.
• Hornung, E., The Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I, Artemis, Zurich, 1991.
• Hornung, E., Zum Grab Sethos I in seinem ursprünglichen Zustand, After Tut'ankhamun, Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes, pp.91-98, Kegan Paul International, London, 1992.
• Hornung, E., Frühe Besucher und frühe Zerstörungen im Sethos-Grab, pp.162-167, Divitiae Aegypti, Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause, , Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden, 1995.
• Hornung, E., Studies on the Decoration of the Tomb of Seti I, pp.70-73, Valley of the Sun Kings, New Explorations in the Tombs of the Pharaohs, Papers from The University of Arizona International Conference on the Valley of the Kings, University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, Tucson, 1995.
• Hornung, E., The Tomb of Seti I, pp.194-211, Treasures of the Valley of the Kings, Tombs and Temples of the Theban West Bank at Luxor, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 2001.
• Hornung, E. et Staehelin, E., Sethos-Ein Pharaonengrab, Antikenmuseum Basel, Basel, 1991.
• Lefébure, E., Les hypogées royaux de Thèbes, première division, Le tombeau de Séti Ier, mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission archéologique française au Caire, Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1886.
• Lipinska, J., The Mysterious Tunnel, Unbroken Reed, Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt in Honour of A. F. Shore, n°11, pp.193-194, Occasional Publications, Egyptian Exploration Society, London, 1994.
• Porter, B. et Rosalind, L. B. M., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings part 1, The Theban Necropolis, part 2, Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, pp.535-545, Clarendon, Oxford, 1964.
• Reeves, C. N., Valley of the Kings, The Decline of a Royal Necropolis, Studies in Egyptology, pp.92-94, Kegan Paul International, London, 1990.
• Reeves, N. et Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Valley of the Kings,  Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs, pp.137-139, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996.
• Ridley, R. T., Champollion in the Tomb of Seti I, An Unpublished Letter, n°66, pp.23-30, CdE, Bruxelles, 1991.
• Romer, J., Valley of the Kings, Morrow, New York, 1981.
• Rutherford, J., Tentative Tomb Protection Priorities, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, pp.134-156, Valley of the Sun Kings, New Explorations in the Tombs of the Pharaohs, Papers from The University of Arizona International Conference on the Valley of the Kings, University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, Tucson, 1995.
• Ryan, D. P., Belzoni's Rope from the Tomb of Sethos I, n°2, pp.139-142, SAK, Hamburg, 1989.
• Sadek, 'A. el-'A. F., La tombe de Séthi Ier, n°149-150, pp.60-63, dossiers d'archéologie, Paris, 1990.
• Thomas, E., The Royal Necropoleis of Thebes, pp.104-107, Princeton, 1966.
• Weeks, K. R., Atlas of the Valley of the Kings, Publications of the Theban Mapping Project 1, sheets 34-36, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 2000.