Questions about the forging of a pugio and a balteus

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

But probably there was'nt an universal method of supension, not in swords not in pugiones.

I have seen that in the tombstone of Flavoleius Cordus is possible to see a kind of lace between the disc and the pugio's rings:



The picture is from M. C, Bishop's ARMAMENTARIUM webpage.

I remember in other tombstone, that the pungio hangs from a baldric. It's from a signifer, i will search for it...

[Crispvs]

Tarbicus,

I think you may be thinking of the paper by Janka Istenic about an Augustan period sword and scabbard found in or close to the river Ljublanica which were clearly associated with a similarly decorated belt plate and cross hanger found nearby.

Crispvs

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Tarbicus,

I think you may be thinking of the paper by Janka Istenic about an Augustan period sword and scabbard found in or close to the river Ljublanica which were clearly associated with a similarly decorated belt plate and cross hanger found nearby.

Crispvs

Cross hanger?

[Crispvs]

The bands that pass across a scabbard and have the suspension rings passed through their ends.

Crispvs

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Ahh ok! I always think of them as the suspension bands. Thanks!

[PhilusEstilius]

That's interesting I normaly refer to them also as cross hangers.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I think of a cross as a cross. Funny that!

[PhilusEstilius]

I think Byron that it's from the point of view they go across the scabbard to hold the rings.