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Funerary papyrus

Collection — framed item: 1

Identifier: 8631

Scope and content

Discovered in a tomb in 1887 and purchased by Andrew Dickson White in 1889 in Cairo, this eight-foot-long funerary papyrus describes what will happen to the deceased, stolist Usir-Wer, and how he will be greeted in the afterlife. The central vignette depicts Spell 125 from the Book of the Dead.

Dates

circa 320-30 BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Language of Material

In English.

Restrictions on Access

Access restricted to the permission of the curator.

Extent

1 items. (1 items.)

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script

Physical Storage Information

framed item: 1 (Mixed Materials)

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

https://rare.library.cornell.edu/

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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