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gladius hilts
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Avete Fraterii:

Would it be period-correct to have a gladius with an all-ivory hilt (to include the grip, pommel and guard)?

Vale:

Gaius Octavius Drusus
Michael Garrity
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#2
Sure- I've seen images of a few of them in musuem collections.

Matt
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#3
sure would,

check this site out


http://www.romanauxilia.com/Exploratio/imagebase.htm

has a few good pics of all ivory bits.


BTW, FRATER is a 3rd declension noun, so the nominative plural is FRATRES

VALE
aka., John Shook
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