Resumen de Female Vanity in the Early Modern Period: Evidence from the Science Based Reassessment of a Supposed Merovingian Dental Appliance

Michael Maccheroni, Melanie Fillios, Peter Grave

• Musée de la Cour d’Or, Metz, France, possesses a female skull bearing a gold wire dental appliance claimed in a 1934 Dental Cosmos article on the history of dental prosthetics to be ‘probably’ Merovingian in origin. Inquiries in 2017 revealed current museum curators were unaware of this claim but were skeptical of such dating suggesting and the dentistry indicate the woman was of high social status.