01-25-2017, 01:47 AM
Sadly, we just don't know, as there are no similar depictions to compare it with. It is possible that bot the upper and lower right suspension rings are being utilised, with the left hand ones hanging free, but if so, it begs the question of what they are attached to. The straps wrapped around it are a mystery too. They may or may not be involved in the pugio's suspension. There is no way of knowing what they are supposed to be either. They may be leather, but then again, they might be intended to represent fabric. Any paint which might have helped us has long since gone.
Although it is temping to want to copy something unusual, you would be on mush safer ground suspending your pugio vertically by the upper pair of suspension rings, as this is what seems to have been standard practice later and appears to be the way solders depicted on the Aemilius Paulus monument at Delphi (dating to a bit over a hundred years before our friend Minucius) are carrying theirs as well.
Crispvs
Although it is temping to want to copy something unusual, you would be on mush safer ground suspending your pugio vertically by the upper pair of suspension rings, as this is what seems to have been standard practice later and appears to be the way solders depicted on the Aemilius Paulus monument at Delphi (dating to a bit over a hundred years before our friend Minucius) are carrying theirs as well.
Crispvs
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