Leather sandal from a Christian burial at Qarara, dating to the early Islamic Period, when the majority of Egyptians in Upper Egypt were still Christian. The sole is sharply pointed at the toe end, and bears embossed decoration. The braided leather thongs survive, with the oval clasps; a single thong runs from the toe to the double thong across the foot. Leather and palm fibre replaced papyrus fibre for footwear in the Roman and Byzantine Periods.
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