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]