{"id":79336,"date":"2025-01-15T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/?p=79336"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T09:55:45","slug":"out-of-the-lab-vindolanda-shoes-and-lepidinas-slipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2025\/01\/15\/out-of-the-lab-vindolanda-shoes-and-lepidinas-slipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the lab.. Vindolanda shoes and Lepidina\u2019s Slipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two weeks only in January, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindolanda.com\/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA1p28BhCBARIsADP9HrMZt8eG0ccYm5kP98XrnJWBgMUVEZk73V-T_BRMnHC-7Wxn95mGLucaAmLPEALw_wcB\">Vindolanda<\/a> museum closes to allow cleaning and scheduled maintenance, but which also allows is in to take a closer look at items on display..<\/p>\n<p>It was an absolute privilege to get a closer look at lepidina\u00a0 slipper:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindolanda.com\/blog\/the-curators-favourite-shoes\"> Here is a link to more shoes and information<\/a>: This lady\u2019s slipper was also found in the Cerialis\u2019 house and is sometime affectionally called Lepidina\u2019s slipper. It is the equivalent of a flip flop in design but a very expensive one at that. It was made in Gaul (modern France) by Lucius Aebutius Thales, we know this because he stamped the shoe with a maker\u2019s mark. The shoe is further stamped with vine leaves and two\u00a0<em>cornucopiea<\/em>\u00a0interlocked across an ear of corn. Whether it was Lepindia\u2019s or not it was definitely owned by a women who had money to spend on nice shoes. A simple breakage of the toe thong and she has thrown it away. Many other shoes from the site show evidence of repair but this one was discarded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79337\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/01\/Sample-79-L-1111-7-pic-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/01\/Sample-79-L-1111-7-pic-4.jpg 554w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/01\/Sample-79-L-1111-7-pic-4-139x300.jpg 139w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/01\/Sample-79-L-1111-7-pic-4-473x1024.jpg 473w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/01\/Sample-79-L-1111-7-pic-4-185x400.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two weeks only in January, the Vindolanda museum closes to allow cleaning and scheduled maintenance, but which also allows is in to take a closer look at items on display.. It was an absolute&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2025\/01\/15\/out-of-the-lab-vindolanda-shoes-and-lepidinas-slipper\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23320,"featured_media":79338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/01\/sample-83-L-1985-67-pic-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79339,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79336\/revisions\/79339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}