A girl from Ida ( Dutch: Meisje van Yde ) - the name is given to the well-preserved body of a teenage girl found in a peat bog near the village of Ida in the Netherlands .
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The “Girl from Idea” was found on May 12, 1897 . The body was wrapped in a woolen cape. A loop made of wool was tightened around the girl’s neck, indicating that she was executed for some crime or sacrificed. In the area of the clavicle, a trace from the wound was preserved. The skin was not affected by decomposition, which is typical for marsh bodies .
The results of a radiocarbon analysis carried out in 1992 showed that she died at the age of about 16 years old, between 54 BC. e. and 128 BC e. The head of the corpse was half shaved shortly before death. The remaining hair is long, have a reddish tint. But it should be noted that the hair of all the corpses that got into the swamp environment acquires a reddish color as a result of denaturation of the coloring pigment under the influence of acids in the swampy soil. As a result, it can be assumed that the reddish shade of the hair of the corpse is a posthumous change and may not coincide with the intravital shade. Computed tomography determined that during her life she had a curvature of the spine . Further studies led to the conclusion that the cause of this, most likely, was a lesion of the vertebrae with bone tuberculosis .
This find became quite famous due to the fact that Professor Richard Neve from the University of Manchester recreated the girl’s appearance from the casts from her skull . Currently, “The Girl from Idea” and her reconstructed head are on display at the Assen Museum.
Literature
- van der Sanden, Wijnand AB Mens en moeras: veenlijken in Nederland van de bronstijd tot en met de Romeinse tijd. - Assen: Drents Museum, 1990. - P. 61 Fig 12. - ISBN 90-70884-31-3 .
Links
- Description at mummytombs.com
- Reconstructed girl's head