Sock of a child

Sock of a child

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This child's sock was made using the same technique as similar pieces in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. All of them date to the fourth to fifth centuries. The Brussels piece has been made with a separate section for the big toe to encompass a sandal strap.

EL-SHEIKH `ABADA/ANTINOOPOLIS

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD: BYZANTINE PERIOD

M. Rassart-Debergh (Éd.), Arts tardifs et chrétiens d'Égypte (Exposition Louvain-la-Neuve ), Le Monde Copte 14-15 (1988) 36-37 nº 52

J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 49

Keizers aan de Nijl (Exposition Tongres), Louvain 1999, 224 nº 135

KMKG - MRAH

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