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Description: | A copper alloy Roman knife handle: The hand is in the form of a standing dog, viewed from the side. The dog has a long neck, rounded head, and short up turned tail which may be incomplete. There is no detail defining for example facial features, but this may be due to abrasion. The dog is standing on a narrowed platform which is decorated with vertical wide ribbing. The lower edge of the platform is a broken edge, and this break is not recent. The handle has a mid grey/green patina. It measures 28mm long, 16.89mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 4.1g.The knife handle probably dates to the Roman period AD c. 43 to c. 409. Similar examples are on the PAS database, for example NMS-5FFCE1, and NARC-12C087 which depicts a ram rather than a dog.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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