[Sca-cooks] Coloured eggs

[johnna holloway]

Christina Nevin wrote:
>Wow, those are great eggs Jadwiga! The onion ones are especially lovely.>
> I'm having this memory spasm about reading somewhere the Romans put eggs in
> graves, not sure if they were decorated or not. Something about a  Roman
> child's grave in Germany, around C.4th? And it might have been a goose egg?
> I'm racking my brain but I can't remember where I read it. Ring any bells
> with anyone?> Lucrezia
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This came from G o o g l e's cache of
http://www.sv.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/~plott/month-OsternE.html.
Easter Eggs... Painted eggs were discovered already in German-Roman
graves
of the fourth century. The first report of Easter eggs from the 12th
century quotes "red
Easter eggs", probably an allusion to the blood of Christ shed on the
cross. It was
forbidden to eat eggs during lent. They were interpreted as a symbol of
life and
resurrection (an enclosed grave from which life arises) and as a symbol
of eternity because
of their shape (without beginning or end). Artfully painted eggs are
known since the 16th
and 17th centuries.
This may be the story that you remember... There should be more academic
references
in the archaeological literature.
Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis