Sety's Borrowed Coffin with Dr. Peter Lacovara

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The coffin of Sety I (now in the NMEC) was probably reworked from an earlier piece, during the reburials in DB320 (the royal cache). But how can we tell? Dr. Peter Lacovara explains. Dr. Lacovara's website https://peterlacovara.com/ Video version available at Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast Video version available on YouTube https://youtu.be/6e1fauj4qPA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.7	Before we begin, a quick note.
0:26.3	This interview has a lot of visual discussion,
0:31.2	and there is a video version of this available on Patreon and on YouTube.
0:33.7	Check the links in the episode description. Hello folks, Dominic here. As promised, here is a short interview with Dr. Peter
0:43.1	Lakovaara to discuss the coffin of Siti I. The king's casket discovered in the Dera-Bahari
0:50.2	cache in 1881 was probably not his original burial case.
0:56.0	The king seemed to have travelled somewhat and wound up in a borrowed container.
1:01.2	To explain the evidence for this and where the coffin might originally have come from,
1:05.7	Dr. Lakovaara joined us for a brief discussion.
1:08.9	I hope you enjoy.
1:19.8	So good morning, Dr. Lakovara, and welcome back to the history of Egypt podcast. How are you today? Good. Good. You're coming to us live from New York at the moment? Yes. Yes. How are things
1:26.4	in the big city?
1:28.7	No, I'm in not such a big city. I'm in Albany, which is the capital of the state,
1:34.7	but not New York City. Albany, okay.
1:37.7	Two and a half hours north. Fair enough. The only thing I know about Albany is that they
1:42.0	use, they refer to hamburgers as steamed
1:44.9	hams. Are you familiar with this? No, I've never heard that. Maybe it's an old being in one.
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