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Description: | Roman iron knife, wide blade with convex cutting edge curving up to the tip, point missing, the straight flat-back continuing as the upper edge of the sub-rectangular sectioned handle which is then twisted and has the terminal bent sideways to form a loop. Extant length 141mm. Width 26mm Thickness of blade: 2.5mm. Cf. Manning (1985), 109-11, fig.28, type 11b for the general form. The twisted handle and looped terminal appear on various types of Roman knife, e.g. ibid., 119, pl. 87, Q87. c.43-409 AD.
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