Genesis 6:4 and Nephilim fodder?
I wear a size 13 and so I don’t find the shoes terribly large.
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I’m mildly curious as to why these Romans buried so many shoes.
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Perhaps nobody else was willing to do so.
My theory: They were factory-seconds and they didn’t want them to circulate in the grey market and taint their brand image. (And the novel “swoosh” logo was not well received in the marketplace.)
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Maybe this was a dump into which worn out shoes were thrown – and buried under later layers of rubbish? Maybe it was part of an equipment cache that got abandoned.
It would help in forming a hypothesis to know if the shoes in question were worn or unworn.
It was a size 13. Maybe the shoe didn’t fit.
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Perhaps some Roman general had a shoe fetish.
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The main reason we find so many shoes in the area is that soil conditions are very good for preserving organic material. Most found are worn out. The story mentions that a collection of shoes were found in a defensive ditch. Likely dumped, but I’d want to know rather more about the context and dating to go any further,
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I just now saw them on eBay classified as “gently used.”
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While the shoes are pretty amazing - in that they survive - the biggest treasure from the region is the collection of writings known as the Vindolanda Tablets. Everyday writings from ancient times are pretty rare, especially from Northern Europe.
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Text 856 was absolutely riveting–but the ending left me in suspense.
Ridley Scott hired a screenwriter to adapt it—as Gladiator IV.
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