Series of carved feet, probably apprentice practice pieces.
A large number of carved feet have been found at Aphrodisias, many of them of relatively low quality, which seem to have been produced by apprentices or trainee sculptors in the city. Feet were probably used as subjects because they are fairly complicated anatomically, because the pieces of stone on which they were carved could be laid down on a flat surface, and because the sculptors could use their own feet as models. In this image two can be seen which had more than one foot carved on them, and on the left a large example can be seen on which the carver appears to have originally modelled six toes.
