2nd-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, typical of this category; the iron grip would originally have been covered with bone or ivory, having inverted T-shaped grip plates with crescentic pommel. 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 Exercit. 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 gladi brevis est, storia e tecnologia del pugnale da guerra romano, Roma, 2012. 324 grams, 40cm long (15 3/4"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed early 1960s-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), and to the blades of the III period according to the Saliola-Casprini classification (Saliola-Casprini, 2012, nos.45,54").pared to previo types of the 1st-2nd century AD, the blade of this weapon shows a considerable size, up to 45cm and longer, showing a plain appearance and no decoration, even on the scabbard, when preserved.