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Funeral monument of a Roman midwife. In ancient Rome, childbirth was the aim of a Roman marriage. Procreation was the prime duty and expectation of a woman. [1] Childbirth also brought upon high risk to both the mother and child due to a greater chance of complications, which included infection, uterine hemorrhage, and the young age of the mothers.
Swaddled baby [a] votives are figures of babies offered as an entreaty to a god or goddess, [b] for healthy pregnancy and childbirth. They have been recovered from ancient Italian Roman temple sanctuary sites.
In ancient Roman religion, birth and childhood deities were thought to care for every aspect of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and child development. Some major deities of Roman religion had a specialized function they contributed to this sphere of human life, while other deities are known only by the name with which they were invoked to ...
Ancient Roman birth certificates were introduced in 4 AD due to the lex Aelia Sentia and the lex Papia Poppaea, which were pieces of legislation passed by Emperor Augustus. [4] [5] Within 30 days of a child's birth their parents, grandparents, or a representative of the family would legally declare their birth at the Temple of Saturn. [6]
There's even an "X" ancient baby name: Xerxes. There are a few exceptions: Among ancient baby boy names, Sebastian is ranked number 13 on the list of most popular baby boy names. Alexander (number ...
The religion of the ancient Egyptians forbade infanticide and during the Greco-Roman period they rescued abandoned babies from manure heaps, a common method of infanticide by Greeks or Romans, and were allowed to either adopt them as foundling or raise them as slaves, often giving them names such as "copro -" to memorialize their rescue. [17]
The Selection of Children in Sparta, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, small version of 1785, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.. In ancient times, exposition (from the Latin expositus, "exposed") was a method of infanticide or child abandonment in which infants were left in a wild place either to die due to hypothermia, starvation, animal attack [1] [2] or to be collected by slavers or by those unable to produce ...
A baby girl wearing an ornate beaded headband was buried at the site more than 300 years ago. Remains of ancient wooden coffins — holding babies and children — unearthed in Hungary Skip to ...