Pugio grips - why so thin?

[Poftim]

But again, how do you know they didn't make the grips smaller so tehy couuld warp them in someting to make the grip more conftorable to hold.

Because they decorated them often, and why would you go to that trouble when you were only going to cover it in a piece of leather?

There might have been a difference between the ceremonial ones and the ones that the guys carried around. Maybe we have more examples of the fancier ones because they were a lot better taken care of and thus survived to this day.

Also, in those sculptures (is that what they're called?) they might have been depicting an officer who might have carried around a really fancy one because he was rich and not going to use it anyways. Like a lot of the officers used to have fancy grips on their pistols.

Also, where were these sculptures made? They didn't have the internet back then and the artist might have just copied what he saw in the city from the guards. The guards might have had fancier ones too because they didn't have to use it on a regular basis. (if ever)