Caligae sources

[Martin Moser]

Thanks for all the replies so far!

On the thickness of the surviving caligae's straps/soles I can only second what Mike Bishop says, you can read it up in detail in Jutta Göpfrich (see above), IIRC. The soles I am using are only about 5mm thick and there is no problem at all with the material.
Besides, stone reliefs and similar depictions don't shrink over time ... ;-) )

The ones at
http://www2.nethop.net/~buff/romansandals/
are not bad IMHO, except for the front part.
They look close to the last pair I did, where the straps might be a little thinner. I'll try and get a picture of those and post it, some time soon I hope (made those for a friend so can't make a picture right away). No material problems so far on those, anyway.

I'll try and check the
Alterthümer unser heidnischen Vorzeit Bd 4 Taf.37
for more pics on the Mainz boots, thanks for that. Unfortunately the State Library here in Munich does not seem to have it ...

Thanks again,

Martin