Ivory Sandaled Foot- The tongue of the sandal is decorated with a personification of the Nile, suggesting that the statue depicted was either an Egyptian deity or the Emperor Augustus.(ca. 31 BCE– 14 CE)[4000×3000]
Ivory Sandaled Foot- The tongue of the sandal is decorated with a personification of the Nile, suggesting that the statue depicted was either an Egyptian deity or the Emperor Augustus.(ca. 31 BCE– 14 CE)[4000×3000]
Damn I love the sandal, someone find it for me to buy!
The little toesies just dangling?
Heterodynist on
The level of detail is amazing and thank God we have these kinds of wonderful depictions of precisely how sandals actually fit on people in that era. Almost all the precise details of these kinds of footwear will have been lost purely due to the material they were made from. I love when someone has carved something with this much detail so we can really see how they would have looked (at least in this one case) and have a sense of the way they were worn at the time. Even if we find remnants of one, this is the only way we can ever really know what it really was like to reconstruct one accurately.
AdAltruistic3990 on
It’s a shame the rest of the statue is lost, but this is a wonderful piece.
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Damn I love the sandal, someone find it for me to buy!
The little toesies just dangling?
The level of detail is amazing and thank God we have these kinds of wonderful depictions of precisely how sandals actually fit on people in that era. Almost all the precise details of these kinds of footwear will have been lost purely due to the material they were made from. I love when someone has carved something with this much detail so we can really see how they would have looked (at least in this one case) and have a sense of the way they were worn at the time. Even if we find remnants of one, this is the only way we can ever really know what it really was like to reconstruct one accurately.
It’s a shame the rest of the statue is lost, but this is a wonderful piece.