A naturally mummified body was found in the basement of an ancient mansion in Bologna in the early twentieth century. The remain is currently stored in the museum Centre of the Forensic Medicine section of the University of Bologna. The skeletal and soft tissues of the fortuitous recovery are all green colored but a leg. The remains were therefore identified as the “green mummy”. The “green mummy” is the body of a teenager (11 -14) as gathered from both the ossification and the teeth (fig. 1A-B). The the body posture, displaying the neck bent ahead on the chest and the legs folded back, suggested hints to hypothesize that the body could have been pushed and pressed in a copper box or urn.
Maria Grazia Bridelli, Danilo Bersani, Luca Saragoni, Enrico Petrella, Maria Carla Mazzotti, Federica Fersini, et al. (2018). Locked in a copper box? The mysterious story of the “green mummy” of Bologna.
Locked in a copper box? The mysterious story of the “green mummy” of Bologna
Maria Carla Mazzotti;Federica Fersini;Donata Luiselli;Susi Pelotti;Mirko Traversari
2018
Abstract
A naturally mummified body was found in the basement of an ancient mansion in Bologna in the early twentieth century. The remain is currently stored in the museum Centre of the Forensic Medicine section of the University of Bologna. The skeletal and soft tissues of the fortuitous recovery are all green colored but a leg. The remains were therefore identified as the “green mummy”. The “green mummy” is the body of a teenager (11 -14) as gathered from both the ossification and the teeth (fig. 1A-B). The the body posture, displaying the neck bent ahead on the chest and the legs folded back, suggested hints to hypothesize that the body could have been pushed and pressed in a copper box or urn.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
