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Jones, F. Wood: Supplementary Report
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examined, and of these, twelve were adult males, sixteen were adult
females, and eight were children or young persons.
Several of the rock-cut tombs of the Ptolemaic cemetery (No. 3) on
Hesa have been examined. So far the anatomical work has been
mostly confined to those broken bodies whose transport would be
impossible, the better material being reserved for future study. The
remains of fifty-six adults and sixteen young persons have been
examined. Of the adults, twenty-four were women, twenty-seven were
men, five being too fragmentary to afford evidence of sex (PI. VII).
These bodies are well preserved in bitumen and wrappings, the whole
of their viscera having been removed; and it is hoped that, when
good material can be obtained, some satisfactory reconstruction of
the actual facial features may be made. One cast I have already
prepared by carefully removing the bone and skin from the pitchy
covering of the face, and then taking an impression of the covering in
plaster of Paris. This cast shows the face to be thin and shrunken
and cannot be considered as anything approaching a portrait of the
individual during life, but I think the method points a possible way of
actually reconstructing the features of the body at the time of death.
The great bulk of the material that I have used on this site has
been badly disturbed since burial, and in many cases the body has
been actually burnt up by the plunderers, who set light to the inflam-
mable bitumen and wrappings.
I have continued the work upon Cemetery No. 5 on Biga, and have
cleared out two more tombs containing twenty-six bodies. One young
woman (Cemetery No. 5, grave No. 91, a) presented a perfect picture of
tuberculous disease of bone. The left elbow-joint was disorganized,
and sinuses were present in the skin over the joint; the left hip, the
left sacro-iliac joint, and the two lower lumbar vertebrae were also the
seats of the disease in an advanced form. A more detailed description
of this case is demanded and will be given later when photographs of
the specimen can be obtained and the examination of the lungs for
tubercle bacilli by Dr. Charles Todd has been completed. Besides
this very definite case of tuberculous disease, two others have come
to light in which, in all probability, the pathological process was the
outcome of an invasion of tubercle bacilli.
females, and eight were children or young persons.
Several of the rock-cut tombs of the Ptolemaic cemetery (No. 3) on
Hesa have been examined. So far the anatomical work has been
mostly confined to those broken bodies whose transport would be
impossible, the better material being reserved for future study. The
remains of fifty-six adults and sixteen young persons have been
examined. Of the adults, twenty-four were women, twenty-seven were
men, five being too fragmentary to afford evidence of sex (PI. VII).
These bodies are well preserved in bitumen and wrappings, the whole
of their viscera having been removed; and it is hoped that, when
good material can be obtained, some satisfactory reconstruction of
the actual facial features may be made. One cast I have already
prepared by carefully removing the bone and skin from the pitchy
covering of the face, and then taking an impression of the covering in
plaster of Paris. This cast shows the face to be thin and shrunken
and cannot be considered as anything approaching a portrait of the
individual during life, but I think the method points a possible way of
actually reconstructing the features of the body at the time of death.
The great bulk of the material that I have used on this site has
been badly disturbed since burial, and in many cases the body has
been actually burnt up by the plunderers, who set light to the inflam-
mable bitumen and wrappings.
I have continued the work upon Cemetery No. 5 on Biga, and have
cleared out two more tombs containing twenty-six bodies. One young
woman (Cemetery No. 5, grave No. 91, a) presented a perfect picture of
tuberculous disease of bone. The left elbow-joint was disorganized,
and sinuses were present in the skin over the joint; the left hip, the
left sacro-iliac joint, and the two lower lumbar vertebrae were also the
seats of the disease in an advanced form. A more detailed description
of this case is demanded and will be given later when photographs of
the specimen can be obtained and the examination of the lungs for
tubercle bacilli by Dr. Charles Todd has been completed. Besides
this very definite case of tuberculous disease, two others have come
to light in which, in all probability, the pathological process was the
outcome of an invasion of tubercle bacilli.