History, Ancient
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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)
Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-442
Scope and content
Papers relating largely to Laistner's position as chairman of the history department, including general correspondence (1935-39), and papers and correspondence on summer school (1936-46), former students (1936-54), music committee (1937-46), assistantships and scholarships (1939-40), deferment from the Selective Service (1939-40), Semitic Studies (1940), and the history of science appointment; Laistner's report (1938) on current research and research needs to the Trustee-Faculty Committee on...
Dates:
[ca. 1935-1959]