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196: The Golden Path
· 52 min
Episode 196: The Golden Path
The plan of an honest ruler. Around 1300 BCE, as today, gold was big business. King Sety I personally led an expedition into the eastern desert, to establish a new mining operation. Back in the Nile Valley, high-ranking officials leave monuments testifying to their work delivering, securing, and recording that gold. And thanks to art and artefacts, we can reconstruct the items these gold-workers produced. From the Red Sea Mountains to the Temple of Abydos, we follow the paths of gold…
Logo image: Silver and gold statuette of a New Kingdom pharaoh, possibly Sety I (Louvre).
For records of Sety and his contemporaries, see Kenneth Kitchen. Ramesside Inscriptions, Volume I. Versions: Hieroglyphs; English translations; References and Commentary.
Photos of Sety’s Temple at Kanais in the Wadi Barramiya.
Sety’s monuments including the Abydos and Kanais temples, in P. J. Brand, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis (2000). Available free online at Academia.edu.
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Music and interludes by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.net.
Music and interludes by Luke Chaos www.chaosmusick.com.
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Links in the notes 9
- https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010032431
- https://archive.org/details/KennethA.KitchenRamessideInscriptionsVol1
- https://www.abercrombypress.com/books/ramesside-inscriptions-historical-and-biographical-volume-i/
- https://www.meretsegerbooks.com/pages/books/M8346c/kitchen-kenneth-anderson/ramesside-inscriptions-translated-and-annotated-notes-and-comments-vol-i-ramesses-i-sethos-i-and
- https://flickr.com/photos/26330013@N08/albums/72157644231058145/
- https://flickr.com/photos/12819143@N08/albums/72157610930432397/
- https://www.academia.edu/40610263/The_Monuments_of_Sety_I_Epigraphic_Historical_and_Art_Historical_Analysis_2000_Probleme_der_%C3%84gyptologie_16_Leiden_E_J_Brill
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