Fig 1.
The assassination of Jörg Jenatsch during carnival, 24th of January 1639, in the tavern “Zum staubigen Hüetli” in Chur.
Wood engraving by R. Bong after a painting by E. Sturtevant, probably late 19th century, Rätisches Museum Inv. No. H1972, 1748. The painting is based on the erroneous account in the novel of C.F. Meyer that the imaginary Lucrezia von Planta revenged her father’s death using the same axe with which Jenatsch and his fellows killed Pompeius von Planta in 1621 (ref. [7]).
Fig 2.
Tufts of blood-soaked brownish-black shoulder-long hair from the back of the head and both temples, isolated during the first exhumation in 1959.
The hair colour was determined by Hug [11] as No. W/X according to the colour scheme in ref. [12], the hair shape as narrow-waved (kymatotrich) according to ref. [13].
Fig 3.
The preserved bones of the lower extremities.
The 7 x 2 cm large defect in the left femoral shaft resulted from DNA sampling. Scale bar 10 cm.
Fig 4.
Preservation of the skull during the first exhumation compared with that of the second exhumation.
Left: condition in 1959, Right: condition in 2012. Note the progressive weathering of all edges. On the right, the mandible is not in occlusion, and the neurocranium is reconstructed in a different orientation to the viscerocranium than in 1959. Moreover, the fragments of the spider web fracture of the right temple have not been realigned. Scale bar 3 cm.
Fig 5.
Symphyseal face of the left pubic bone fragment.
Note the well-marked ridges and the ventral and dorsal margins showing rim formation, consistent with stage II according to Acsádi and Nemeskéry [16].
Fig 6.
Occlusal view of the maxilla (top) and right oblique view of the mandible (bottom).
Fig 7.
CT based panoramic radiograph of the maxillary (top) and mandibular dentition (bottom).
Two teeth have been extracted before radiographic examination (right first and left second mandibular molar), while the left mandibular wisdom tooth, whose clinical crown was completely destroyed, was not in its alveolus, and both maxillary first molars have been lost intra vitam. Radiographically visible deep carious lesions are shown by large arrows; small carious lesions that are only visible macroscopically are shown by small arrows.
Fig 8.
Anteroposterior radiograph of the skull.
Fracture lines are emphasized with white lines. Scale bar 3 cm.
Fig 9.
CT based three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull.
(a) Left lateral view, showing a 7 cm long wedge-shaped notch that runs from the region above the left eye to the left ear. Small arrows indicate the fracture of the inner side of anterior cranial fossa. (b) Right lateral view. The extensive impression fracture of the right temple is well visible (arrows).
Fig 10.
Different stages of the facial reconstruction.
Fig 11.
Comparison of the facial reconstruction with the portrait of Jörg Jenatsch.
A) Raw facial reconstruction, performed without influence of the portrait. B) The same hairstyle superimposed on the facial reconstruction as in the portrait. C) Original portrait of Jörg Jenatsch (Courtesy of Swiss Embassy in Paris, France).
Table 1.
Hair and eye colour analysis based on the HIrisPlex system, results from bone samples A and B, and person C.
Table 2.
Prediction probabilities for hair colour categories and shade, as well as eye colour, for the four options of bone sample A.
Table 3.
Data of the isotope analysis from femur bone collagen (C, N, S), tooth enamel and dentin samples (Sr, Pb), mean and standard deviations.