Shoes / Schuhe
(En)
For the ancient Egyptians, shoes weren't just meant to protect the feet. They were also a status symbol. Poor people often wore no shoes, while rich Egyptians wore magnificent shoes, mostly sandals.
Olaf Paper, Egyptologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands reports on his research:
That footwear played an important role in the society is suggested by the sheer size of the archaeological corpus: footwear is found in a wide variety of contexts from the most lowly peasant to royalty, and from Predynastic times onwards. Footwear not only served as a protection of the feet: it had a considerable socio-economic and symbolic significance from the very early stages of history onwards. This significance as well as status is, however, unclear. Equally little understood is how footwear was used and conceived of in practical terms. Moreover, we know very little about the development in time and the distribution of footwear. The choice of material, shape, technological features as well as the distribution of types in time and space are powerful traits to understand the practical use as well as this symbolic content.
In order to achieve answers to the above-mentioned questions, this research departs from merely the hands-on study of items in major museum collections worldwide, as well those that have been recently excavated to include: manufacturing technology, materials, shape, use, wear and repair. The acquired information will be combined with the information supplied by the context: detailed analysis of the context might help to understand socio-economic, symbolic significance and status. Although the thrust of the research is solidly based in the material remains of footwear, pictorial and textual evidence will be brought to bear on the subject when appropriate.
(De)
Für die alten Ägypter waren Schuhe nicht nur für den Schutz der Füße gedacht. Sie waren auch Statussymbol. Arme Menschen trugen oft keine Schuhe, wärend Reiche Ägypter prachtvolle Schuhe, meist Sandalen trugen. Auch wurde die Fußbekleiden wann immer es ging geschont.
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Schuhe / Sandalen
Der Durchschnittsbürger lief barfuß, der Reiche trug Sandalen. Die Ägypter kannten Sandalen seit dem Ende der prädynastischen Zeit (kurz vor 3000 v.Chr.). Die Frauen benutzten sie kaum und die Männer nur ausnahmsweise, zum Beispiel wenn sie einen Besuch machen mußten. Höhergestellte Personen ließen sich von einem Diener begleiten, der die Sandalen trug, damit sie am Ziel angezogen werden konnten.
Im Mittleren Reich besaßen nur die Armen keine Sandalen, die anderen trugen sie immer in der Hand und zogen sie erst an, wenn sie das Ziel ihres Weges erreicht hatten.: