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Does anyone have any information on the dimension of the Leeuwen pugio.....size of the the blade, scabbard etc?
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If you Google The Leeuwen Pugio you will find some very good pictures of it by Bladesmith's Forum.com
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The scabbard is (in its fragmented state) 19,8 cm long according to:
J. Obmann, Studien zu römischen Dolchscheiden des 1. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. (Rahden/Westf. 2000)
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Thank you Andreas for the information.
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I forgot to mention....from pictures of the original that I have seen, it appears that the scabbard is complete.
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"Leeuwen" is a Dutch placename. Is it the place where this dagger was found? (I was born there.)
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Hello Jurjen,
Thank you very much for the information. I take it that the 35cm for the length included the hilt plus the scabbard?
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As I figured out now, that there are at least three daggers/scabbards from Leeuwen, the scabbard length I give in my first post, is not from the piece Doc meant. For this the length of the scabbard is given with 25 cm, so 35 cm must be the overall length.
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Hello Andreas,
Thanks for the reply.
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