Help please - Hellenistic Water Carrier

[John Conyard]

In bronze, first half of the first cenbtury BC, now in Vienna. Probably Egyptian manufacture.

The chap has "patterns", wooden platforms, on his feet to raise him off the floor. Are we looking at a worker in the baths who needs to be raised above the hot floor, or somebody raising himself above the detritus of the street?

Cheers

John