Delos Sword

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I not agree. A lot of reenactors can draw gladius of such lenghtness. Even longer, as did some cavalryman reenactors, drawing cavalry spatha much longer than 66 cm. Don't forgot to see the cavalrymen tombstones, depicting the spatha hanging from the right side, too. Even the cavalry spathae founded in imperial times are very longer than 60-65 cm, for exemple the Rottweil or Newstead ones.

here I can agree, I have some doubt too about that Hazell's theory.

I also think that it's an officier's sword,but not because of it's length.
My reason for thinking that is that it has only rings on one side. This means that it it was intended to be carried in Greek fashion: slanting at the left hip.
This is the way centurion carry their sword in the 1st Century. It's not simply a question of it being carried at the other side, because the most well known depictions date from the mid 1st Century, while soldiers still carried theirs on a waist belt in the early Flavian period.
I think centurion, like all officers, wore equipment based on the late Republican's knightly armour. And the equites are generally shown with the sword in Greek fashion on the right hip, even where foot soldiers already use the waist belt and the right hip