Mid 3rd century AD. An iron short dagger or pugio of 'Kunzing Type', with double-edged blade, the blade characteristically leaf-shaped with pronounced waist and a double longitudinal channel defining a rib, which is typical of this category; the sides are parallel, the iron grip originally would have been covered with bone or ivory, having inverted T-shaped grip plates with crescentic pommel; handle with bi-lobed pommel with a small knob, made with composite and framing techniques. See Bishop, M. C. & Coulston, J.C.N., Roman military equipment, from the Punic wars to the fall of Rome, London, 1993; Kennedy, D., The twin towns of Zeugma on the Euphrates, Portsmouth, 1998; Ba?gelen, N. & Ergeç, R., Belkis/Zeugma, Halfeti, Rumkale, a last look at history, Istanbul, 2000; Bishop, M. C. & Coulston, J.C.N., Roman military equipment from the Punic Wars to the fall of Rome, London, 2006; Feugère, M., ‘Roman militaria from Zeugma’, in Ergeç, R. (ed.), International Symposium on Zeugma: from Past to Future, Gaziantep, 2006, 91-96; Ibañez, F.C., ‘Post Vestigium Exercitus. Militaria romana en la región septentrional de la Península Ibérica durante la época Altoimperial’, in Morillo, A. (ed.), Actas del II Congreso de Arqueología Miltar Romana en Hispania. Universidad de León-Ayuntamiento de León, León, 2006, pp.257-308; Casprini, F., Saliola, M., Pugio gladius brevis est, storia e tecnologia del pugnale da guerra romano, Roma, 2012.292 grams, 33cm (13"). Property of an East Anglian collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s. This dagger belongs to the last period of evolution of the Roman pugio, the so-called Kunzing type (from the German locality in which a hoard of these pugiones was found"). Compared to previous types of the 1st-2nd century AD, the blade of this weapon shows a considerable size, up to 45 cm and longer, showing a plain appearance and no decoration, even on the scabbard.