Material: Gray Marble
Era: Late 2nd to Early 3rd Century
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: Campania, Italy via an Australian collector of the 1930's via an Atlanta Antiquities Dealer.

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Material: Silver
Era: 4th Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman Provincial
Origin: From an Old German Collection via a German Antiquities Dealer

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Material: Bronze and Copper With Traces Of; Gold Gilding, Silver Gilding, Lead Overlay, Lead Wash, Resins, and Niello
Era: C. Mid 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman and Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Antiquities Dealer in the Netherlands

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Material: Bronze With Traces Of Gold and Silver Gilding
Era: 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Old Austrian collection, purchased at auction in Paris in 1950, and found in Sicily during a house construction in the 1930's.

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Material: Bronze and Copper With Traces Of; Silver Gilding, Lead Overlay, Lead Wash, and Paint
Era: C. Mid 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman and Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Antiquities Dealer in California

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Material: Bronze, Lead Overlay, and Fossilized Leather  
Era: Augustan (30 BC To 14 AD) 15 to 16 AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from England, found in 1988 near the village of Venne, Germany. Nearby from the village of Venne is Kalkriese (Osnabruck), Kalkreise is now thought by some to have been where Varus's legions or elements of those legions made a last stand. With that said recent art and inscriptions discovered on this artifact suggests that the area around or near Kalkreise is where Legion XVII Classica Victrix or elements of that legion made their last stand and that Varus was with that legion when he committed suicide.

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Material: Gold
Era: 9 AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from the Netherlands, purported to have been found in an area of Germany near where the Teutoburg Forrest Disaster took place.

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Material: Bronze
Era: Mid 1st AD
Culture:Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Antiquities Dealer in California, origin attributed as from the Balkans.

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Material: Bronze
Era: Early 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Greco/Roman
Origin: From an old English collection, purportedly found in North Africa in the 1930s.

Miniature art and inscriptions have been found on all three of the existing rivets, althoiugh the photographing of these is a bit of a challenge. This is mainly due to a shellac coating that was used to preserve the artifact in the mid 20th C. Nevertheless we expect to have at least a few pictures posted soon.

Material: Gold Gilded Bronze, Silver Plated with Lead Overlay
Era: 1,200 to 800 BC and 33 BC to 14 AD
Culture: Ancient Anatolian and Roman
Style: Ancient Anatolian
Origin: From an Old Danish Collection

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Material: Iron, Bronze, Silver (With traces of gold gilding), and fossilized Wood.
Era: Mid to Late 1st AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Antiquities Dealer in California

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Material: Iron, Silver / Lead Alloy, Bronze, Ivory, Paint, Lacquer, and Paste
Era: 69 to 73 AD
Culture: Roman / Roman Provincial
Style: Roman and Ancient Syrian, Anatolian, or Armenian
Origin: From a Dealer in Germany, purported to have originated in Germany

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Material: Bronze (One trace of gold gilding) and Iron
Era: Mid to Late 1st AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Antiquities Dealer in Germany

  The overall length of the Eating Knife is 23 cm, the blade near the hilt has remnants of four square teeth. The Eating Knife has miniature engravings and inscriptions including a Triton with standards, the inscriptions appear to be of Legion XV Apollinaris.

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Material: Iron and Bronze
Era: Late 1st C. BC to Early 2nd C. AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Old English private collection

The pommel tang cap and grip are made of ivory, although these are shriveled due to the desert heat, both have eleaborate engravings.

Material: Iron, Silver/Lead Alloy, Bronze, and Ivory
Era: 213 AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Antiquities Dealer in California

Although not shown with these pictures, the inscriptions on the top of the pommel's stud show that this sword had belonged to a Trecenarius of Legion II Traiana Fortis. Although it is well established that the Praetorian Trecenarius had been the top Centurion, the position of the Legionary Trecenarius has not been established. There is one theory that the rank was second to the Praefectus Castrorum. Part of the inscription reads "TRECEN" and the other part reads "II TR GER", this suggests that this sword had been commissioned when Legion II Traiana had been awarded the title Germanica, most likely in 213 with the defeat of the Alamanni (although the fighting actually ended with a treaty, the Romans considered it a victory) or shortly thereafter. The inside of the stud has inscriptions and symbols of the defeated Germanic tribes. The idea of the defeated being thrown into a hole can be seen with various artifacts on this website. The iconography on the pommel highly suggests that the sword has meteorite metal. Under the green patina, the guard is black with work done in white overlay. The blade has engravings and decorations, most notably is a sword with a dragon grip and lighting (that is in fact chromium) coming from the sword's tip. The blade appears to have been treated with a tinted black chromium or with an alloy with chromium, hence the Class I to II condition that deems it as the finest example of a gladius known.

Material: Iron, Bronze, and Ivory. Fossilized Leather and Fossilized Wood.
Era: 293 AD to 313 AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman and Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in England, purportedly from an Old English Collection and found in Spain.

As seen in the Anness book "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Swords and Sabres" by Harvey J. Withers

Material: Iron, Bronze, and Fossilized Bone
Era: First Half of the 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in California, purported to have been found in Germany.

Material: Iron and Bronze
Era: 2nd to 3rd C. AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Old English private collection

Material: Bone
Era: 1st to 3rd C. AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: From an Old English private collection

   This is the first segment of a two segment bone Cavalry spatha (long sword) grip. It measures 44 mm in height, 41 mm in width, and is 23 mm thick. This artifact was a gift from friends in England. It is from a well known Old English collection, it was described as a Roman gladius grip segment. Recent findings with the miniature art show that it is in fact a Britannic Roman Sarmatian memorial piece, and that it was once on the spatha of a Roman Sarmatian Cavalryman of some rank. For those interested in the Samaritans in Britain, it is an important discovery. Detail pictures of the miniature art and other information are posted with the Ancient European Arthurian Related Artifacts Section Section of the Roman Officer homepage.

Material: Bronze
Era: Late 1st C. BC to 1st C. AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: From and Identified by English Archeologist and Antiquities Dealer Lord A. Murray, Found in the Rhine River.

Miniature inscriptions and iconography on this gladius chape suggests that it had been awarded to a Centurion of Legion V Macedonia for leading a Cohort in a first contact on Lake Tiberius (aka Lake Gennesaret or The Sea of Galilee) in September of 67 AD. At some point in the near future we will post pictures of the miniature work.

Material: Iron and Bronze (With Traces of Silver Gilding)
Era: Late 1st to Early 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in California.

An image of this pugio is featured on the Simon & Schuster book cover "Death of Caesar" by Barry Strauss, that also includes a German edition published by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) - Konrad Theiss Verlag.

Material: Iron, Traces of Bronze, and Fossilized Wood
Era: First Half of the 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: A renown English private collection of militaria, found in Devon, England

This Pugio is seen as example 72 in the data base (Chapter IX) of the book Pugio - Gladius Brevis Est: History and Technology of the Roman Battle Dagger (BAR International Series 2404) 2012, by Marco Saliola and Fabrizio Caspini.

Material: Iron
Era: Late 2nd to Early 4th Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from England, found on a hilltop in Norfolk County, England, it is 39.6 cm in length. As this artifact appears to have the answers as to who the historical King Arthur actually was it is our most featured artifact. Detail pictures of the miniature art and other information are posted with the Ancient European Arthurian Related Artifacts Section of the Roman Officer homepage.

As seen as a Roman Contos in the Anness book "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Swords and Sabres" by Harvey J. Withers

Material: Bronze
Era: Flavian under Domitian (81 to 96 AD)
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in England, from an English Collection

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Material: Lead and Paint
Era: Flavian
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California

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Material: Bronze with Traces of Thin Lead Overlay and One Trace of Gold Gilding
Era: 16 AD to 92 AD
Culture: Roman and Roxolani Sarmatian
Style: Roman and Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from the Netherlands

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Material: Silvered Bronze (With Two Faint Traces of Gold Gilding)
Era: 2nd AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman/Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in Virginia

Material: Bronze
Era: 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in the Netherlands

Material: Bronze
Era: Late 2nd or 3rd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman and Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from NJ

Material: Iron
Era: 3rd to 5th Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California

Material: Bronze, Lead Overlay, Paint, and Electrum
Era: Late 3rd To Early 4th C. AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California

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Material: Bronze
Era: 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman and Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from NJ and an Antiquities Dealer from California.

Material: Bronze
Era: 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from New York and Germany

Material: Bronze and Lead
Era: 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California

Material: Bronze
Era: 1st or 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from England, purported to be from an Old English Collection and originally from Turkey.

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Material: Bronze
Era: Second Half of the 1st Century BC
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From a Dealer in England

Material: Bronze, Lead, Traces of Alloy Overlay, and Paste
Era: First Half of the 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman
Origin: From a Dealer in Germany

This is an extremely small statuette, it is 4.1 cm in height. Considering that the dealer had offered 2nd C. AD legionary artifacts with this artifact, then more then likely it had once belonged to a legionary who was devotee of the cult of the emperor. If so then when the legionary was on move it may have been kept in a small pouch. It is a motion artifact in that it is weighted and designed (on it's base) to slightly rock back and forth with one quick motion to the right (as if vibrating) for approx. 5 to 7 seconds.

Material: Bronze
Era: 1st to 3rd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in Las Vegas

Material: Terracotta
Era: 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: Antiquities Dealer in Illinois

Material: Silvered Bronze
Era: 2nd to 3rd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman Provincial
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in Nevada

Material: Bronze and Enamel
Era: 1st to 2nd Century AD
Culture: Roman
Style: Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer in England, found in Gloucester, England

Material: Silvered Bronze
Era: 1st Century BC
Culture: Greco/Roman
Style: Greco/Roman
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California

Material: Bronze, Gold Gilt, Silver Gilt, Lead, and Paint with Lacquers
Era: Second Half of the 1st Century AD
Culture: Roman Provincial
Style: Roman Provincial
Origin: From a re-known English Collection, found in 1982 near the site of the Caerieon (Welsh for "Fortress of the legion") Roman Fort, Gwent, Wales, Headquarters of Legion II Augusta from 75 AD to Approx. 300 AD.

The statue has miniature art. Some of this has to do with the followin; the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, Vespasian, a comet, and local legends of the Silures. When our archive is completed it will include more detailed information and pictures. When this statue was in the previous collection it was identified as a representation and legionary votive of Hercules, along with the current identification this may also be so, in fact it appears that it may be a specific type of Hercules associated with Britannia, this concept will be explored at a later date.

    This is a typical Late Roman Legionary Propeller Belt Applique. What is unique about this applique is that it depicts the helmeted head of a Late Roman Era Sarmatian. The art style is known as Roman grotesque, which is usually associated with entertainment, not with Roman soldiers. The crudeness of the subject does not appear to be a result of poor craftsmanship, as the excellent detail shown on the scale chin straps suggest a fairly skilled artist. One eye is placed lower than the other and the face has a distinct, animal like snout. The artist may have portrayed his subject like this as Sarmatians were associated with the dragon. Or it could be that the craftsman/artist had been commissioned to purposely create a homely face. Tacitus wrote in his Germania that he viewed the Sarmatians as having a physically repulsive appearance. To date there is no evidence to verify such a statement or not, but there are a few theories.

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