Egyptian jaw

3D Model

Material: Organic material Dating: 30 B.C.E. / 395 B.C.E. Period: Roman Period Acquisition: Museo Egizio di Torino

This is the first of the two pieces of a jaw, part of a human mummy wrapped in linen bandages and covered by a painted shroud and a painted and gilded cartonnage mask. During the restoration work, the cartonnage mask was temporarily removed. beacuse of this, the observation of the mummy’s skull and jaw was allowed; moreover, the bones were previously deprived of the linen bendages, probably by a theft. In particular, while one part of the jaw was found inside the skull, the second was located inside the linen bandages near the shoulders. This discovery was made possible thanks to the tomographic acquisition of the mummy.

Courtesy Museo Egizio, Turin (Italy).