The case of scurvy from Singidunum

Abstract

In 2014, at the Belgrade Fortress, the bones of a female individual, aged 3-4 years were discovered in Grave no. 1, in sondage 2/2014. Dental and paleopathological analysis revealed traces of enamel hypoplasia on the teeth, while the bones of the cranial and postcranial skeleton showed traces of scurvy and tuberculosis. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177007: The text results from the projects Romanization, urbanization and transformation of urban centres of civil, military and residential character in Roman provinces in the territory of Serbia i br. 177021: Urbanization processes and development of medieval society]

Keywords

• Singidunum
• Late Antiquity
• enamel hypoplasia
• scurvy
• tuberculosis