Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Boot with plaited lace.
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Loose fragments, holed, very dry and brittle, soil on sole, out of shape, seams coming undone.
Ex Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession number 31217 (check number 17705 "Boot, black leather, Coptic, Egypt"); purchased for Sir Henry Wellcome at Stevens' auction house, London, 6 August 1924 lot 72 "Roman wooden box containing original thread, and 12 Roman and Coptic shoes, all found in Egypt, rare".
Specifications
- Accession number
- 1973.2.117
- Collection type
- Textile/Clothing
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Date made
- 300 AD - 500 AD
- Collector
- Henry Solomon Wellcome
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Date collected
- 1924 before
- Materials
- Leather Skin
- Measurements
- Overall: 170 mm x 280 mm
- Note
- 3 loose strands of pierced leather may not belong with this boot.
- Credit line
- Gift of the Trustees of the Wellcome Collection
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Item not currently on display
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