Köln Calceus No. 14

A pair of the Köln (Cologne) find #14, quite similar to another find from the same site, Köln Calceus No. 12. 
As there a quite a few finds of these shoes with net-like uppers, they must have been quite the rage for shoe fashion in the late 1st/early 2nd century AD.

The long row of tabs for lacing the shoe reminds of the much simpler boot from Castleford (cf. Castleford Boot No. 13) but the pattern itself is different.

• Schleiermacher, M.; Laurenze, C.: Roemische Leder- und Textilfunde aus Koeln, in Archaeologisches Korrespondenzblatt 12, 1982, pp. 205-216.