M0013982: Two Roman glass feeding bottles, 1st and 3rd century

A Roman feeding bottle of the type found in children's graves and thus possibly used for infant feeding and a Roman glass bottle with spout, possibly a feeding bottle, found in the tomb of a Franco-Roman physician children's graves and thus possibly used for infant feeding. .The first item was part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection. The second was purchased by the Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4641/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

May 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: acc. number R246/1936 and acc. number R4641/1936

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.