A cradle is an infant bed which rocks but is non-mobile. It is distinct from a typical bassinet which is a basket-like container on free-standing legs with wheels. A carbonized cradle was found in the remains of Herculaneum left from the destruction of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The Nahua or Aztec people used cradles, with an Aztec ceramic figure of a child in a cradle dated back to between 1350 and 1521 CE.
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