The making of shoes and their wearing developed throughout different eras, and the main feature of primitive times was the absence of wearing shoes
Wearing shoes of the Pharaohs
Royals and some commoners, wearing, decorated and unadorned
sandals, even some of their sandals were made of gold, and the sandals of King
Shoshenq II and the luxurious king Tutankhamun are not far from us.
The
ancient Egyptians often appear through inscriptions and carvings while they
were barefoot, which prompted some to consider them as a barefoot people, however, the reality confirms the opposite.
Here we
see kings, princesand nobles.
Akhenaten and Nefertiti
There is a small limestone statue of Akhenaten and his
girlfriend Nefertiti (about 1345 BC), who are wearing a pair of magnificent
sandals, it dates back to Tell El Amarna period during the eighteenth dynasty
in the modern state, and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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| pharaohic couple wearing sandals | | |
Sandals of Amenhotep IV and his wife Nefertiti
There
is also the family tablet of Akhenaten (1353 - 1336 BC), where sandals seen on
the feet of King Amenhotep IV and his wife Nefertiti carrying their children
under the rays of the sun God Aten, they were found at Tell el-Amarna in Minya,
and they are now in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.
Statue of King Akhenaten
- There is
also a small statue of King Akhenaten in which he appears wearing sandals with
a blue crown on his head, and he is now in Germany.
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| the family tablet of akhenaton |
One
of the most Tut Ankh Amoon's sandals found in his tomb and are now in the great museum.
Images of the king's
enemies on his sandals
These sandals are made of leather, tied with two
zippers, their sides pointing upwards, and there are on the inside of the sole images of the king's, southern and eastern
enemies, who are bound as prisoners of war, in a clear symbolism of their
affliction.
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| Tut Ankh Amoon's sandals |
Statue of Tutankhamun
A small gilded wooden statue of Tutankhamun was found inside his tomb wearing sandals while standing on a painted wooden boat, wearing the red
crown of Lower Egypt, carrying a spear preparing to strike an invisible enemy.
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| Tut Ankh Amoun wearing sandals |
Ivory tablet
This
ivory tablet shows Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhsen in a garden, which was
found in his tomb, and it is currently in the Great Museum among its other
holdings
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| the ivory tablet |
Gold
sandals
Gold
sandals were also found dating back to the era of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC)
in the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the tomb of his three foreign
wives, these sandals are now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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| this is golden sandals |
Merneptah's tomb
In an inscription on the walls of Merneptah's tomb in
Luxor dating back to the era of the Nineteenth Dynasty (1292 - 1189 BC), where
King Merneptah was shown receiving the sun God Ra, wearing beautiful sandals.
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an image of Merneptah's tomb
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King
Shoshenq II
As for the golden sandals of King
Shoshenq II (887-885 BC), who ruled during the twenty-second dynasty, which
were found in Tanis, and are now in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, oh la la !
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pharaonic sandals made of gold
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Leather sandals
Two
leather sandals were found in the village of Deir el-Madina in Luxor, belonging
to village workers during the Old Kingdom period (2435-2305 BC), and they are
now in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy.
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sandals made of leather
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Sandals made of reeds
We
see - in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA - from the era of the
eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties (1550 - 1189 BC) a pair of sandals belonging
to the Gourna region in Luxor, with a sole made of reeds, and a finely woven
edge, and it has twisted belts
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sandals kept in a museum at Boston city
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Sandals made of vegetable fibers
Sandals
with side edges, made of vegetable fibers, were found, perhaps, to prevent sand
from entering the shoe, in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy.
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sandals in a museum at Italy
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In addition of that the Egyptian artist had to precisely show the beauty of his art, he unlikely let his persons
without shoes to show the beauty of his art, and he created in showing precision of his fingers,
good-looking and soft touch
