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  3rd Century Roman Dura-Europos Dagger with Scabbard

  SKU: AH2120

  Dura-Europos was a fortress city on the Euphrates in modern Syria — a crossroads where Roman, Parthian and Sassanid Persian cultures collided for centuries. Destroyed in a catastrophic Sassanid siege in 256–257 AD and buried under desert sand until its rediscovery in the 1920s, the site has been called ‘the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert’ for the extraordinary preservation of its archaeological remains — including this distinctive single-edged dagger.

  
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  Dura-Europos Legionary Scutum, Museum Pattern

  SKU: AH6718L

  Scutum is the Latin word for shield, though in modern usage it has come to specifically mean the rectangular, semi-cylindrical body shield carried by Roman legionaries. This reproduction is modelled on the Dura-Europos scutum, the only surviving example of this classic semi-cylindrical form, excavated from a Syrian frontier city destroyed in 256 AD and now held at the Yale University Art Gallery. The original was built from three layers of thin wooden strips covered in painted fabric and hide, decorated with an eagle and laurel wreath, winged Victories, and a lion — decoration this reproduction recreates.