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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)