Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Roman Army Knife

This is thought to be from 200 AD.



Trying to determine if it's credible I searched about a bit. It's on Wikipedia which is to be taken with a grain of salt. It has also featured in blog after blog which is the way of these things.

Eventually I found it in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection - http://tinyurl.com/u9lzm - which makes me more confident.

It's interesting how the modern equivalent is for fixing things - whereas the Roman one is for eating.

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