<P> The building during the eighteenth dynasty began with a large chapel of Ahmose I . The Pyramid of Ahmose I was also constructed at Abydos--the only pyramid in the area; very little of it remains today . </P> <P> Thutmose III built a far larger temple, about 130 ft × 200 ft (40 m × 61 m). He also made a processional way leading past the side of the temple to the cemetery beyond, featuring a great gateway of granite . </P> <P> Seti I, in the nineteenth dynasty, founded a temple to the south of the town in honor of the ancestral pharaohs of the early dynasties; this was finished by Ramesses II, who also built a lesser temple of his own . Merneptah added the Osireion just to the north of the temple of Seti . </P> <P> Ahmose II in the twenty - sixth dynasty rebuilt the temple again, and placed in it a large monolith shrine of red granite, finely wrought . The foundations of the successive temples were comprised within approximately 18 ft (5.5 m). depth of the ruins discovered in modern times; these needed the closest examination to discriminate the various buildings, and were recorded by more than 4,000 measurements and 1,000 levellings . </P>

When was the temple of seti i built