Leave your Mark!

~ Liv Yarrow

One of my favorite follow ups to giving the AIA/SCS Metcalf lectures was the feedback I got on this slide regarding Papius symbol no. 47, a right sole and a hand holding a stylus

My colleague Wayne Rupp Jr, suggested I think about connections with the “in planta pedis” phenomenon of signing pottery with a name in the shape of a foot.

Harvard example

And we even have some surviving stamps!

BnF

From Millet, Piero & Díaz, Juan. (2013). Los sellos in planta pedis de las ánforas olearias béticas Dressel 23 (primera mitad siglo V d.C.). Archivo Español de Arqueología. 85. 193-219. 10.3989/aespa.085.012.011.
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