Shells and feeding bottles: continuity or breach between Greece and Rome?

Abstract

The presence of these feeding bottles deposited in graves of Roman Gaul brings forth questions regarding such practice, as the analyses of the contents lead us to link them more to body care. The presence of shells in some of the feeding bottle graves also brings us to consider these assemblages from a gender perspective, due to the attribution of shells to mundus muliebris.

Keywords

• Feeding-bottles
• shells
• biochemical analyses of the content
• world of women
• transfer of practices