You have to zoom in to fully appreciate it. Crazy level of detail!
Wow it has treads!
Damn he just like Me fr
@stumu415 I wonder if the sculpture, centuries ago, created a template of some kind, to add that pattern to the sole?
Unsure. Out of the 6000 only 2000 are on display. Every figure differs in facial features and expression, clothing, hairstyle, and gestures. So it could be very likely that each archer is unique. There are not that many archers found in this position.
The features you mention are not stampable but sculpable. This, on the other hand, could be done by a bunch of pre-made forms for further reproduction.
But for my eyes, the rows deviate too much one from another, so probably a person doing it had a hollow bamboo stick to punch buttons in clay for the middle, and the top one could be done via cutting surface with parallel lines - these dots aren’t exactly round and have some angles suggesting diagonal slices. It is pretty and looks clean, and I think undividual artist did it without automating it because the process itself, for an individual foot, is not that time consuming and precise as doing faces etc.
