05-14-2009, 01:42 PM
If Dan is still trying to claim that this sheath is correct to an original find then he is simply (and willfully) wrong and should know much much better. I have advised him on the subject more than once in the past.
The one in the picture Cesar has posted up is the horrendous version Deepeeka managed to produce after seeing the picture in Dan's book 'The Roman Legions: recreated in colour photographs'. I have been trying to stamp this inaccurate abberation out of re-enactment for years now. It is based on a misinterpretation of a line drawing of an iron type 'A' sheath from Kempton, which had been decorated with inlaid silver and decorative rivets. There were never any applied plates (brass or otherwise) on this or any other known Roman dagger sheath.
In addition to this, the lower suspension rings on the Deepeeka version are placed far too low. As a small additional point, despite being labelled as embossed, there is in fact no embossing featured on the sheath anyway, the decoration on the inaccurate plates being produced by acid etching or some similar process. Not that this matters really as the whole thing is inaccurate and deserves to be thrown straight in the nearest rubbish bin.
The handle on the dagger is also wrong. The ends of the guard should not be folded round like that and the pommel is much too thick. Round pommel expansions like that also seem to have gone out of fashion some time during the reign of Augustus (as far as we know at this stage).
Crispvs
The one in the picture Cesar has posted up is the horrendous version Deepeeka managed to produce after seeing the picture in Dan's book 'The Roman Legions: recreated in colour photographs'. I have been trying to stamp this inaccurate abberation out of re-enactment for years now. It is based on a misinterpretation of a line drawing of an iron type 'A' sheath from Kempton, which had been decorated with inlaid silver and decorative rivets. There were never any applied plates (brass or otherwise) on this or any other known Roman dagger sheath.
In addition to this, the lower suspension rings on the Deepeeka version are placed far too low. As a small additional point, despite being labelled as embossed, there is in fact no embossing featured on the sheath anyway, the decoration on the inaccurate plates being produced by acid etching or some similar process. Not that this matters really as the whole thing is inaccurate and deserves to be thrown straight in the nearest rubbish bin.
The handle on the dagger is also wrong. The ends of the guard should not be folded round like that and the pommel is much too thick. Round pommel expansions like that also seem to have gone out of fashion some time during the reign of Augustus (as far as we know at this stage).
Crispvs
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