11-24-2006, 05:34 PM
Aitor,
Thanks for posting up that picture. Normally I too would say that my interest is limited to 1st century AD daggers, but as I come ever closer to writing a book about pugiones I have realised that I need a much better knowledge of both earlier and later types. It strikes me that this example looks quite a lot like the example from Buciumi (?spelling). How big is it?
Robert,
I have had a good look through my collection of pictures an articles and I have no information on any Roman daggers from Leiden. I have been trying to locate this dagger since your request but have found nothing so far. Do you have a reference to an article it was published in which I could follow up?
Also, a note on terminology (the terminology I use at any rate):
"Crossbar" - Guard
"Top knob" - Pommel expansion
"Centre knob" - Central expansion
Regards
Crispvs
Thanks for posting up that picture. Normally I too would say that my interest is limited to 1st century AD daggers, but as I come ever closer to writing a book about pugiones I have realised that I need a much better knowledge of both earlier and later types. It strikes me that this example looks quite a lot like the example from Buciumi (?spelling). How big is it?
Robert,
I have had a good look through my collection of pictures an articles and I have no information on any Roman daggers from Leiden. I have been trying to locate this dagger since your request but have found nothing so far. Do you have a reference to an article it was published in which I could follow up?
Also, a note on terminology (the terminology I use at any rate):
"Crossbar" - Guard
"Top knob" - Pommel expansion
"Centre knob" - Central expansion
Regards
Crispvs
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