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Displays	Remove from selection Add to selection Reproduction Object numberRCSHM/Nubian 18 Scientific nameHomo sapiens CollectionCollege Museum CategoryArchaeological human remains Object nameCranium, decapitation trauma, Un-mounted dry bone DescriptionCranium, showing marks of a sharp instrument which has cut away the mastoid process and occipital condyle of the left side, from a burial site containing the remains of 104 male skeletons executed during the Roman occupation of Upper Egypt, excavated in 1907-1908. This specimen was from a series of remains excavated in 1907-1908 in Aswan, Upper Egypt, under the direction of Sir Henry Lyons. The excavations were supervised by George Reisner of Harvard University, and Grafton Elliot Smith (the Professor of Anatomy in Cairo) and Frederic Wood Jones provided analysis of the anthropological material. In all, some nine thousand bodies were excavated and examined. Many showed pre-mortem pathologies and also evidence of medical treatments. One burial site at Shellal contained 104 male skeletons, all of which showed evidence of execution. Collector/excavator Lyons, Sir Henry George, 1864-1944, knight, geographer Collector/excavator Reisner, George Andrew, 1867-1942, anthropologist Collector/excavator Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937, anatomist Collector/excavator Jones, Frederic Wood, 1879-1954, anatomist presented Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937, anatomist (1908) Physical Location LocationNot on public display: contact museum for access conditions Physical Information Physical descriptionDry Bibliography SourceNubian Collection 1927 NotesThe original catalogue for the collection, prepared on index cards, is now at the Natural History Museum in London. TranscriptNubian Pathology Catalogue 18: Cranium from an executioner's trench within a Roman camp at Shellal, excavated in the Arch. Surv. of Nubia in 1907-8 (Cemetery 7, Trench 21 of Report). Cranium shows injuries received in decapitation; L. mastoid and condyle cut through. Described in Report for 1907-8, Vol. II, p. 335; figured Brit. Med. Jour. Mar. 28 1908 fig 7 on 3rd page of plates between p. 736 + 737. (for further details see No. N.P.C. 14). Pres. by the Director of the Arch. Surv. Nub. per Prof. G Elliot Smith, 1908. SourceDobson 1963c NotesDobson's paper provides a brief overview of the history of the Nubian pathology collection. SourceJones 1908 NotesWood Jones presented a preliminary report on the cases of fracture from the Nubian excavations in this paper.

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Object numberRCSHM/Nubian 18

Object nameCranium, decapitation trauma, Un-mounted dry bone

DescriptionCranium, showing marks of a sharp instrument which has cut away the mastoid process and occipital condyle of the left side, from a burial site containing the remains of 104 male skeletons executed during the Roman occupation of Upper Egypt, excavated in 1907-1908. This specimen was from a series of remains excavated in 1907-1908 in Aswan, Upper Egypt, under the direction of Sir Henry Lyons. The excavations were supervised by George Reisner of Harvard University, and Grafton Elliot Smith (the Professor of Anatomy in Cairo) and Frederic Wood Jones provided analysis of the anthropological material. In all, some nine thousand bodies were excavated and examined. Many showed pre-mortem pathologies and also evidence of medical treatments. One burial site at Shellal contained 104 male skeletons, all of which showed evidence of execution.

Collector/excavator

Lyons, Sir Henry George, 1864-1944, knight, geographer

Collector/excavator

Reisner, George Andrew, 1867-1942, anthropologist

Collector/excavator

Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937, anatomist

Collector/excavator

Jones, Frederic Wood, 1879-1954, anatomist

presented

Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937, anatomist (1908)

Physical Location

LocationNot on public display: contact museum for access conditions

Physical Information

Physical descriptionDry

Bibliography

SourceNubian Collection 1927

NotesThe original catalogue for the collection, prepared on index cards, is now at the Natural History Museum in London.

TranscriptNubian Pathology Catalogue 18: Cranium from an executioner's trench within a Roman camp at Shellal, excavated in the Arch. Surv. of Nubia in 1907-8 (Cemetery 7, Trench 21 of Report). Cranium shows injuries received in decapitation; L. mastoid and condyle cut through. Described in Report for 1907-8, Vol. II, p. 335; figured Brit. Med. Jour. Mar. 28 1908 fig 7 on 3rd page of plates between p. 736 + 737. (for further details see No. N.P.C. 14). Pres. by the Director of the Arch. Surv. Nub. per Prof. G Elliot Smith, 1908.

SourceDobson 1963c

NotesDobson's paper provides a brief overview of the history of the Nubian pathology collection.

SourceJones 1908

NotesWood Jones presented a preliminary report on the cases of fracture from the Nubian excavations in this paper.

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Physical Information

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