03-31-2009, 08:20 PM
Hi,
I can't access the newsletter, but I do know of a pair of gilded slippers from Egypt, Victoria and Albert Museum 837-1903 and 837A-1903, sewn in linen with silk embroidery. Dated tentively to the 5th century. Give or take. But there seem to be lots of shoes from Egypt.
I can't access the newsletter, but I do know of a pair of gilded slippers from Egypt, Victoria and Albert Museum 837-1903 and 837A-1903, sewn in linen with silk embroidery. Dated tentively to the 5th century. Give or take. But there seem to be lots of shoes from Egypt.
John Conyard
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York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
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