Leather Shoe with Gilded Medallions

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Many types of footwear existed in the Byzantine world. Boots were worn by soldiers and laborers, slippers by monks and clergy, and sandals by government officials; the poor would have gone barefoot.

Leather Shoe with Gilded Medallions, Leather; gilded

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