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b'Sety at Abydos (Part 4). Finishing our tour of Sety\\u2019s Great Temple at Abydos, we explore a few more sanctuaries and facilities. Then, we discuss the monument overall. Sety invested huge resources into his building projects at Abydos, and these monuments connect to some truly ancient traditions. What were the King\\u2019s priorities, what was he trying to achieve?\\nPhotos of monuments described in this episode:\\n\\nSety\\u2019s Temple: Kairoinfo4u.\\n\\nSety\\u2019s Temple: Wikimedia.\\n\\nChapel of Ramesses I: Metropolitan Museum of Art.\\n\\nUmm el-Qa\\u2019ab, pottery sherds from ancient offerings: Soloegipto.\\n\\nDescriptions and excavation reports:\\n\\nCaulfeild, Temple of the Kings at Abydos, 1902: Internet Archive and Heidelberg University.\\n\\nCalverley, The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, in four volumes. Volume I, The Chapels of Osiris, Isis, and Horus (1933); Volume II, The Chapels of Amen-Re, Re-Harakhti, Ptah, and King Sethos (1935); Volume III, The Osiris Complex (1938); Volume IV, The Second Hypostyle Hall (1958). All volumes available in PDF at The University of Chicago.\\n\\nTexts: K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations Volume I: Ramesses I, Sethos I and Contemporaries (Second Publication edn, 2017).\\n\\nInterpreting the temple complex and adjacent facilities:\\n\\nDavid, Temple Ritual at Abydos (2018).\\n\\nO\\u2019Connor, Abydos: Egypt\\u2019s First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris (2009).\\n\\nVerner, Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt (2013).\\n\\nAdditional details and sources:\\n\\nDate: c.1300 BCE\\u20141292 BCE.\\n\\nMusic intro and interludes: Luke Chaos.\\n\\nMusic outro: Ancient Lyric.\\n\\nSistrum interludes: Tahya / Hathor Systrum.\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'