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That is smaller than my shoe size, those scientists have a dumb frame of reference.
Not my fault everyone else has weird and tiny feet.
Considering 6' people were rare 150 years ago, I'd imagine a size 14 would have been crazy 2,000 years ago.
They were also shorter on average than modern humans. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17072/what-was-the-average-height-of-roman-men-and-women
They also lived shorter on average. Some of them still reached a very old age. The average really doesn‘t tell us that much about the extremes that existed.
It's not size 14.
12.6 inches is roughly size 38 in UK sizes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barleycorn_(unit)
Yeah I work in a place that sells shoes and I can tell from the thumbnail image that shoe is much, much bigger than a size 14. Nowhere that sells normal shoes for people to actually wear will sell shoes that big.
One of my sons wears size 14, despite not being freakishly tall (he's 6'2" and strongly buit). He usually has to put in a special order. His hands are also massive. We've never had a conversation about cock size, though I'm somewhere in the normal range, whereas my wife's dad was reputed to be a tripod, so it could go either way, or somewhere in-between.