Late Hittite Shoe-Shaped Vessel

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

9 in. (585 grams, 23 cm).

Hollow-formed shoe-shaped jug with rolled rim to the ankle, tab with hole for thong and stopper; welt-line to upper face and around sole.

Provenance

Private collection, acquired on the German art market in 1993; thence by descent.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate no.13226-249313.

Literature

Cf. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object number: 67.182.2; Various, Land of Civilizations, Turkey, Osaka, 1985, cat.97.

Footnotes

These upturned shoes are characteristic of the whole Hittite era. They are attested until the Late Hittite age. This kind of footwear appears later in the Aegean area, probably due to the influence of Anatolian fashion on Bronze Age Greek culture. It may have been the case that the Akkiyawa (Achaeans) living on the western coast of Anatolia adopted such items (as many others) from the Anatolian Indo-Europeans and exported them to the Greek lands, with the first examples attested in Greece only around the 14th century BC.

CONDITION

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