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upper or straps covering, or partly covering, the foot.' Gow, on the authority of
Plutarch and Pliny, has defined the krepis as " a nail-studded sole with loops at the
side by which it was laced to the foot." 3 Hippokrates, as cited by Galen,36 the most
ancient authority, recommended his contemporaries to " wear shoes fitted with lead,
fastened on the outside by ties (straps) and having the same properties as the krepida
of Chios." This probably means a heavy peasant's shoe, suitable for long walks, in
which the nails of the sole are replaced by lead plates( ?). E. Pottier in Daremberg-
Saglio, Dictionnaire, s.v. Crepida, states that such shoes can be seen in parts of modern
Greece; his article fully illustrates the sandal. See also Erbacher, op. cit., pp. 12-13,
and Bieber, R.E., s.v. Krepis.
10. KpOVWE'4tov (VI, 35; see below, p. 241). The form KpolrE] 4ov, which occurs
in Pollux, X, where so many of our items are found, was offered as a restoration in
line 35 of Stele VI. The item had belonged to Aristarchos the shoemaker. But the
use of the singular number seems to weigh against this restoration, and the reading
[IrpaE'] 4tov, therefore, may be substituted.37
Pollux (VII, 87) refers to KpOVlrE4a as shoes with wooden soles. Kratinos (f rag.
310: Kock, C.A.F., I, p. 103) mentions these as Boeotian. They correspond to the
Roman scabellum and are illustrated in Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire, IV, 2, pp. 317
and 1106. For further description, see Erbacher, op. cit., p. 14; and Hug, R.E., s.vv.
Schuh, 757; and Sculponea, 909.
11. G-Kta'&WoV (II, 144). Parasol. The history of the parasol is given by G.
Nicole in Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnctire, s.v. Umbellca. The word is not mentioned
in Greek authors until a date roughly contemporary with our inscription,38 but the
diminutive form uKLa8tO-Kq occurs in Anakreon (frag. 54, line 11: Diehl). The
skiadeion, however, was commonly represented on vase paintings at least as early as
the late sixth century B.c.,3g and later especially in works of Myson, the Pig Painter,
and the Mannerists generally. Vases with representations of parasols have been
studied particularly in connection with the festival Skira.40 Deubner has noted that
there are a great number of vases in which men clothed as women or women clothed
as men carry parasols.4' Beazley has described these figures as komasts. The footnotes
35 J.H.S., LVIII, 1938, p. 190. He cites Plutarch, Alex., 40, al.; Pliny, N.H., XXXV, 85;
XXXVI, 127.
36 Art., IV (C. Kuhn, Medicorum Graecorum Opera, XVIII, p. 678).
37 See Buck and Petersen, Reverse Index, p. 72.
38 Aristophanes, Equites, 1348; Aves, 1508, 1550; Thesm., 823, 829; Eupolis, frag. 445 (Kock,
C.A.F., I, p. 367), etc..
"I Naples 2729, C.V.A., pl. 27; and Beazley, A.R.V., p. 123, no. 29.
40 For a recent discussion of this festival, see F. Jacoby, F. Gr. Hist., 328 (Philochoros), Notes,
pp. 194-195.
41 A ttische Feste, Berlin, 1932, p. 49. Caskey and Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in Boston, II,
London and Boston, 1954, p. 56.