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Tongue Cover-Plates were gold foil amulets placed over the tongues of some Egyptian mummies.[1] This mainly took place during the Greco-Roman period although examples from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty have been found at Oxyrhynchus.[2][3] This funerary ritual appears to have been to done in the belief that it would help the dead individual speak in the afterlife.[4] They were sometimes accompanied by gold eye amulets.[1][2]
In the 21st century examples of such amulets have been found at Oxyrhynchus, Quesna and Taposiris Magna.[2][3][5] In the 19th century finds were made at Tell Nabasha, San el-Hagar and Hawara.[6][7][8]
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