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 * 2020, Franz Lidz, Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe, (14 February 2020);
 * Some 70 years ago, the artifacts were donated to the Museo Storico Nazionale Dell’Arte Sanitaria in Rome. Curators exhibited the objects — which conformed to those in a photo taken by Matrone — and hastily cataloged the cranium as “Pliny the Elder’s skull.” The claim on the tag was later hedged to read: “Skull from the excavations of Pompeii and attributed to Pliny.”