In attesa delle parole di Frankfort, riporto quanto scrive Graham Hancock nel suo Fingerprints of the Gods
«[...] Frankfort's facts
Later to enjoy great prestige and influence as professor of Pre-Classical Antiquity at the University of London, Frankfort spent several consecutive digging seasons re-clearing and thoroughly excavating the Osireion between 1925 and 1930. During the course of this work he made discoveries which, so far as he was concerned, 'settled the date of the building':
1. A granite dovetail in position at the top of the southern side of the main entrance to the central hall, which was inscribed with the cartouche of Seti I.
2. A similar dovetail in position inside the eastern wall of the central hall.
3. Astronomical scenes and inscriptions by Seti I carved in relief on the ceiling of the northern transverse chamber.
4. The remains of similar scenes in the southern transverse chamber.
5. An ostracon (piece of broken potsherd) found in the entrance passage and bearing the legend 'Seti is serviceable to Osiris'. [...]»
«[...]The only facts are that certain inscriptions and decorations left by Seti appear in an otherwise completely anonymous structure. One plausible explanation is that the structure must have been built by Seti, as Frankfort proposed. The other possibility is that the half-hearted and scanty decorations, cartouches and inscriptions found by Frankfort could have been placed in the Osireion as part of a renovation and repair operation undertaken in Seti's time (implying that the structure was by then ancient, as Naville and others had proposed). [...]»
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