The Front of a Monumental Acrolithic Marble Right Foot, Hellenistic/Early Roman, Circa 1st Century B.C./early 1st Century A.D.

from a cult statue, wearing a sandal with ivy leaf at the center of the straps, the outer side strap emerging from a voluted motif, the underside hollowed out and scored.

French private collection, Paris, acquired at Drouot in the early 1970s (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Piasa, Mobilier et objets d'art, November 28th, 2012, no. 36, illus.)

As shown and described, surface weathered and dirty, scattered chips and abrasions especially on tops and tips of toes, big toe lacking entirely, tip of little toe lacking, scored on back and bottom for insertion.
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For a related colossal Acrolithic foot from Alexandria in the British Museum, unshod but with similar treatment of the arching of the nails, see C.A. Picón, "Big Feet", Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1983, fasc. 1, p. 99, fig. 6.