Case file · Haunting
A widower's letter to his dead wife
Around the 13th century BCE an Egyptian officer wrote a letter to his late wife Ankhiry, complaining that she was haunting him though he had treated her well, and asking her to stop.
1,250 BCE · 29.84, 31.25 · status: account
The account
The papyrus, now Leiden I 371, was probably placed at her tomb near Memphis. 'Letters to the dead' were a common way for Egyptians to ask the deceased for help or to quiet them.