Mycenaean Baby Bottles

Jun 24, 2011 13:15


Mycenaean children's artifacts are rare, but they have been found, as attested by these miniature feeding bottles.

In one excavation, a doll's head was found buried with a girl.  At first, the archaeologists assumed the head belonged to a cult figure placed there to protect the child in the grave, but then someone pointed out the little holes where the head would have been attached to a cloth body.  No religious artifact this, but simply a child's doll, accompanying her mistress into eternity.


children, pottery, archaeology

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