Reconstructing King Philip II: The "Nice" Version
1990; Archaeological Institute of America; Volume: 94; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/505951
ISSN1939-828X
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeology and Historical Studies
ResumoAt the University of Manchester techniques of facial reconstruction have been considerably refined, and are being applied in a complementary fashion in both forensic and archaeological contexts. Among excavated skulls to have been reconstructed, that found by Andronicos in the Great Tumulus at Vergina has achieved considerable renown, if not notoriety, since the Manchester-based team was able to identify the skull (and thus indirectly the tomb) as that of Philip II on the basis of an eye injury to the skull corresponding precisely to one that Philip had suffered at the siege of Methone in 354 B.C. The reconstruction of the face, published in 1983 and using the available evidence, showed a horrendous scar over the right eye. Now, following the testimony of Pliny, HN 7.37.124, who speaks of minimal scarring, and the evidence of the Hippocratic Corpus for the ancient treatment of injuries to the eye (backed up by Celsus, De Medicina 7.5.3 and by the "spoon of Diokles," as well as by modern medical knowledge), a new and less disfigured version has been produced.
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