Holy shit, they're [real](http://www.touregypt.net/museum/tutl22.htm). WE WUZ KANGS: "On the inner sole are figures of Negro and Asiatic captives bound with stems of lotus and papyrus. Above and below are groups of four bows which together with the captives, represent the nine traditional enemies of Egypt whom the king symbolically trod underfoot when wearing the sandals. The device had a long history dating back more than a thousand years."