• dubs@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Time travel ghost story is just the modern day reboot Cinderella needed.

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    1 year ago

    Thousands of years ago, a person was cleaning out a well in Roman Spain when one of their leather sandals slipped off their foot. Now, 2,000 years later, archaeologists have found the well cleaner’s missing shoe.

    Finally!

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      1 year ago

      A lot of the very few surviving samples do of course look really primitive, but at the high end, cobblers in the Roman world were not fuckin’ around.

      UC28327 here is a pretty ornate sole with a very modern shape.

      The upper on this one must have been super nice when new.

      Then, there’s no reason to suppose that Marcus Aurelius’ (and/or Hadrian’s) sandals on their statues were idealized past the point of plausibility, though I’m sure once one government contracted statue with approved Imperial sandals gets made, there’s a temptation to stick with the motif regardless of the current Emperor’s footwear preferences.