Bronze single crown-like prosthetic restorations of teeth from the Late Roman period

Four single bronze crown-like prosthetic artefacts, most probably from the Late Roman period, are described and illustrated here. They are cubic in shape with triangular facets at the corners, each with a central cylindro-conical cavity at the bottom. Within the cavities, remnants of C, P and Ca were found. These were probably components of some kind of bone cement, used for adhering the bronze crowns to the tooth. These crown-like dental works could be early atempts to apply bronze to dental prostheses and were probably mainly used as jewellery for aesthetic purposes.