DOI Artikel:
Derry, Douglas Erith: Field notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18104#0031
An interesting anomaly of the superior maxilla was recorded. A
suture was found running from the nasal margin to the lower border
of the orbit, where it became continuous with the suture uniting the
os planum of the ethmoid with the orbital portion of the maxillary
bone, thus completely cutting off the nasal process from the body
of the maxilla. This condition was present on both sides. The
specimen unfortunately was very fragile, and, though taken up with
care, the facial portion broke before even a photograph of the anomaly
could be obtained.
Cemetery 89.
Early in February an immense cemetery was discovered lying to
the south of No. 87, with which indeed it had in all probability been
originally connected, as some isolated graves and other evidence pointed
to the removal of a great quantity of the alluvial soil in which bodies
had been buried. A few of these graves in a patch by themselves
formed Cemetery 88 ; the continuation of this to the south was
numbered 89. This cemetery chiefly consisted of mud tombs of the
Ptolemaic-Roman period, which will presently be described. There
were, however, about seventy graves of the archaic group, ranging,
according to Dr. Reisner, from late predynastic to early dynastic
times. As usual, many of the bodies had been destroyed, but those
left were found to be in singularly good condition, so that no less than
thirty-one bodies were measured, the majority completely. Thus a
very useful addition has been made to the numbers of bodies of the
A- and B-groups, which so far have been few, while the evidence
obtained from previous bodies of this date as to the racial characters
of the people has been very markedly strengthened.
Twenty male skulls were measured, and eight female, and the
results obtained, when compared with the information relating to the
C-group and also to archaic material from Egypt, are of great interest.
In Cemetery 79, which is of the same date as the one at present
being considered, the few male skulls measured gave an average
maximum length of 188-9 mm. This is so much longer than the
mean usually given by crania of this date, that it must be considered
as a coincidence that five out of the eleven skulls measured were over
190 mm. in length. In the present cemetery (89) the' mean maximum
length of twenty male skulls was 181-7 mm., a difference therefore of
suture was found running from the nasal margin to the lower border
of the orbit, where it became continuous with the suture uniting the
os planum of the ethmoid with the orbital portion of the maxillary
bone, thus completely cutting off the nasal process from the body
of the maxilla. This condition was present on both sides. The
specimen unfortunately was very fragile, and, though taken up with
care, the facial portion broke before even a photograph of the anomaly
could be obtained.
Cemetery 89.
Early in February an immense cemetery was discovered lying to
the south of No. 87, with which indeed it had in all probability been
originally connected, as some isolated graves and other evidence pointed
to the removal of a great quantity of the alluvial soil in which bodies
had been buried. A few of these graves in a patch by themselves
formed Cemetery 88 ; the continuation of this to the south was
numbered 89. This cemetery chiefly consisted of mud tombs of the
Ptolemaic-Roman period, which will presently be described. There
were, however, about seventy graves of the archaic group, ranging,
according to Dr. Reisner, from late predynastic to early dynastic
times. As usual, many of the bodies had been destroyed, but those
left were found to be in singularly good condition, so that no less than
thirty-one bodies were measured, the majority completely. Thus a
very useful addition has been made to the numbers of bodies of the
A- and B-groups, which so far have been few, while the evidence
obtained from previous bodies of this date as to the racial characters
of the people has been very markedly strengthened.
Twenty male skulls were measured, and eight female, and the
results obtained, when compared with the information relating to the
C-group and also to archaic material from Egypt, are of great interest.
In Cemetery 79, which is of the same date as the one at present
being considered, the few male skulls measured gave an average
maximum length of 188-9 mm. This is so much longer than the
mean usually given by crania of this date, that it must be considered
as a coincidence that five out of the eleven skulls measured were over
190 mm. in length. In the present cemetery (89) the' mean maximum
length of twenty male skulls was 181-7 mm., a difference therefore of