Harvard Art Museums > 1960.284: Vessel in the Shape of a Sandaled Foot Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Vessel in the Shape of a Sandaled Foot , 1960.284,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291003. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1960.284 Title Vessel in the Shape of a Sandaled Foot Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 600-550 BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Corinth (Corinthia) Period Archaic period Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/291003 Physical Descriptions Medium Terracotta Dimensions 8.2 × 4 × 9.5 cm (3 1/4 × 1 9/16 × 3 3/4 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson Accession Year 1960 Object Number 1960.284 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Vessel in the shape of a right foot wearing a sandal. Cream-colored clay; glaze on sandal straps fired reddish to dark brown, partly lost; upper part of mouth and handle restored in plaster, chipped. Commentary This small vessel for perfumed oil (called an “aryballos”) takes the form of a right foot wearing a yoke-style sandal. Yoke sandals are common for Greek visual representations of sandals of the Archaic period (c. 600-480 BCE) in other media (for example, in vase painting, on large-scale sculpture, in terracotta “models”) as well as on other small vessels in the form of feet. As containers for perfumed oil, vessels in the shape of a foot like this were appropriate in many contexts: they may have been useful for personal care or grooming in athletic contexts; they could have contained oil for offerings in sanctuary; they could have been gifts for the dead at the grave (or used to contain oil for funerary rites). Publication History David Moore Robinson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: USA Fascicule 4, The Robinson Collection, Baltimore, MD, Fascicule 1, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1934), p. 32, pl. 15, no.1 a-b Katherine Dohan Morrow, Greek footwear and the dating of sculpture, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1985), pp. 4, 12, no. 12, pl. 7 Sonia Klinger, "Terracotta Models of Sandaled Feet: Votives from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth", Hesperia, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton, NJ, 2018), 87, 3, 429-449, p. 443, fig. 6 Exhibition History The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961 A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
