Handling Feet: Roman Jugs as an Example of the Significance of Roman Foot-Shaped Artefacts

Roman jugs with handles terminating in human feet exemplify artefacts representing and footwear. Using a ‘bricolage’ of archaeological theory that includes object biography contextual archaeology, this paper explores the many facets significance attached to such through case study foot-handled jugs. By assembling corpus, patterns geographical chronological distribution can be examined. The setting which were found provides evidence for their possible significance, coming from religious or funerary contexts. Some deposited watery settings, maybe as ritual offerings. Foot-handled are often part valuable assemblages. on may an amusing change more usual heads, they stand synecdochically deities Isis Mercury. also serve apotropaic function. demonstrate how varied multi-layered symbolism foot-shaped is.