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Would it be completly incorrect to make a matching sheath for a Mainz and a pugio? I got a bare blade (thanks Mike!) and just got the bone for the handle, looking for hardwood for pommel now. I also have all the material for making the scabbard, and got to thinking that a matching sheath for the pugio would be neat, but did it really happen/exist???
Just thinking out loud I guess...thanks!!
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Sword and pugio sheaths were decorated in very different styles to each other. I would say that any match would have been fairly superficial by our standards.
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What about themes Crispvs? Perhaps not exact, but similar? Though i suppose it's impossible to tell...not like they've found a gladius and pugio side by side.
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What about the Pompei soldier? Was he not found with a gladius, belt and pugio?
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The Herculanium soldier was indeed found with a sword and dagger. However, the dagger was unlike anything else so far identified as a dagger and to my eyes (looking only at poor photographs unfortunately) it has the appearance of a shortened gladius which has been re-used and appears to have been carried in a sheath which was a cut down sword sheath. As you can imagine, I eagerly await its PROPER publication (surely 23 years is long enough to prepare a decent publication :roll: :roll: :roll: )
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That dagger seems more a short Mainz type or something similar. The scabbard is embossed, as some mainz types, if i remember well.
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I remember now.... pity! Still, it brings to mind how the Amah's husband used to make small daggers out of old Japanese bayonets in Borneo when I was a kid! Recycle, recycle recycle, definitely not a new idea!
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I thought it would have been "possibly" an Officer's type thing...oh well, not likely to happen now. My research library here at the house consists of 1 book with equipment, and now I cant even find my Osprey Roman clothing books........
Thanks for the input guys!!
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That's a great idea Jef!
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