Inscribed Human Skulls

So this all started with a beautiful office object found on the Colossal Shop's page. Turns out, there's a cheaper option on Etsy, even though I like the idea of a coral-colored skull better:

From here, I recall the myriad skulls I have seen with writing on them. Skulls on their own become separated from the individual that owned it, looking to non-anthropologists and biologists as just another skull. So why not write a caption right on there?

Descartes' skull was inscribed with a poem about the great brain that lived inside it (yeah, I know, body/mind duality. But Descartes also thought that the two might come together in the pineal gland, so the physical body was important to him as well). 

Musée de l'homme, Paris

Other brains were not drawn upon as odes, but as didactic or research models, like this poor soul's noggin used as a phrenology model:

Semmelweis Museum, Budapest

And sometimes, it's just for identification:

Mütter Museum, Philadelphia

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