09-01-2015, 08:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-06-2018, 08:40 AM by Crispianus.)
Came across this shoe in the Museum of fine arts Boston, said to be from Egypt and Ptolemaic......
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/shoe-164463
The provenance is none existent to say the least but it has similarity's with another shoe from Dura which has a very broad date, however for various reasons I'm fairly convinced the Dura shoe is Roman late 2nd to mid 3rd cent ad:
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5950
Reconstruction of the Dura shoe the original may have been higher, possibly a short boot:
An illustration of a 2nd cent bc shoe from the Funerary Stele of Dioscourides at Sidon, this appears to be a short boot with multiple eyelets:
Hellenistic or Roman........?
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/shoe-164463
The provenance is none existent to say the least but it has similarity's with another shoe from Dura which has a very broad date, however for various reasons I'm fairly convinced the Dura shoe is Roman late 2nd to mid 3rd cent ad:
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5950
Reconstruction of the Dura shoe the original may have been higher, possibly a short boot:
An illustration of a 2nd cent bc shoe from the Funerary Stele of Dioscourides at Sidon, this appears to be a short boot with multiple eyelets:
Hellenistic or Roman........?
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
