and Seti I., but when Rameses II.

desired to add to the work of his predecessors, a bend in the river compelled him to turn eastwards.

His pylon is not parallel to that of Amenhotep III., and his colonnades make a distinct angle with the general axis of the earlier work.
At Philae (fig.

87) the deviation is still greater.

Not only is the larger pylon out of alignment with the smaller, but the two colonnades are not parallel with each other.