DOI Heft:
Jones, F. Wood: Supplementary Report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18101#0045
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On the mainland, Dr. Reisner has unearthed a further series of New
Empire burial pits and brought to light a vast amount of anatomical
material. From Pit No. 6, I have examined twenty-one bodies* in
a more or less complete condition. Twelve of these are adult males,
four are adult females, and five are children. From Pit No. 5, twenty-
one male skulls and twelve female have been measured. The most
interesting of these pits, however, is No. 11, and here there was in
the mouth of the 18th dynasty pit a shallow intrusive burial of
sixty-two bodies, all males, buried at one time, and all showing signs of
having been executed. One skull shows well the clean cut of some
sharp instrument, which, in severing the head from the body, had
carried away the mastoid process and the occipital condyle of the left
side. The remainder of the skulls show a most interesting lesion of the
base of the skull associated with the jerk imparted to the occipital
bone in the ordinary process of hanging. These bodies were bound
around the limbs with cords, and in one case the hangman's actual
rope was found in situ encircling the cervical vertebra?.
Several interesting fractures and pathological details have come to
light, and, though they merit careful description, they are not most
fittingly included in this brief report of progress made during the last
three weeks of November.
Since this report was printed, 73 crania from this pit have been examined.
F. Wood Jones.
On the mainland, Dr. Reisner has unearthed a further series of New
Empire burial pits and brought to light a vast amount of anatomical
material. From Pit No. 6, I have examined twenty-one bodies* in
a more or less complete condition. Twelve of these are adult males,
four are adult females, and five are children. From Pit No. 5, twenty-
one male skulls and twelve female have been measured. The most
interesting of these pits, however, is No. 11, and here there was in
the mouth of the 18th dynasty pit a shallow intrusive burial of
sixty-two bodies, all males, buried at one time, and all showing signs of
having been executed. One skull shows well the clean cut of some
sharp instrument, which, in severing the head from the body, had
carried away the mastoid process and the occipital condyle of the left
side. The remainder of the skulls show a most interesting lesion of the
base of the skull associated with the jerk imparted to the occipital
bone in the ordinary process of hanging. These bodies were bound
around the limbs with cords, and in one case the hangman's actual
rope was found in situ encircling the cervical vertebra?.
Several interesting fractures and pathological details have come to
light, and, though they merit careful description, they are not most
fittingly included in this brief report of progress made during the last
three weeks of November.
Since this report was printed, 73 crania from this pit have been examined.
F. Wood Jones.