Ceramic Footwear Items in the Collection of the Mureș County Museum Florești–Polus Center (Cluj County), Marisia. Archaeologia-Historia-Patrimonium 7, 2025, p. 27–38.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63509/MrsAHP.2025.7.03

Abstract:

During the inventory process of the Mureș County Museum collection, five unpublished Early Iron Age ceramic footwear pieces were identified. In Transylvania, analogous objects have been found in HaB–HaC settlements. Although in the wider region ceramic footwear items and boot-shaped vessels are known from Bronze Age settlements and burials, the Iron Age pieces form a unique group due to certain characteristics like their solid body or the breakage at the shin. Besides providing an insight into the footwear worn at the time, these objects are important artefacts for understanding the customs, beliefs and worldview of the period.