116 Selected Bibliography: Della Valle 1674: 104–108; Leplat 1733: Plate 197; cat. Dresden 1977: 39 no. 39 and 40, fig. 95 and 96; Cantone 2013: 109, 117 fig. 2 (relating to inv. no. Aeg 777); cat. Dresden 2020 a: 97–99 with fig.; Müller 2020; Zesch et al. 2020 Literature: Bierbrier 1997; Borg 1998; cat. Frankfurt 1999; Corcoran 1995; Doxiadis 1995 are coins or medallions that were most likely laid in the hands of the deceased as grave goods and were later slightly displaced. In the woman’s torso, there are also numerous circular, perforated objects of organic material, about one centimetre in size; they are presumably beads from a necklace (fig. 2). Each of the mummies was placed on a board before being wrapped in textile bandages. The mummy board of the man is now broken in several places (fig. 4 a – b). The dental status and other features on the skeletons suggest that the man was 25 to 30 and the woman 30 to 40 years old. The man was about 163 centimetres and the woman about 150 centimetres tall. In the case of the man, two maloccluded canines had not erupted into the oral cavity (fig. 5). Several teeth had caries, and one molar even had a root abscess. The woman’s left knee joint was probably affected by pronounced arthritis (fig. 6). The left half of the pelvis is higher than the right, possibly as a result of adopting a relieving posture to reduce pain in the arthritic knee joint. SZ · SP · AZ · WR
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