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Table Knife Handle, Childs, c. 2nd-3rd Cent

Copper alloy; 46mm/11.4gm 

Con/ Missing iron blade, otherwise, As Cast; near unblemished pale green patina.

Seller's Note/ All such Roman table knife utensil's were designed with a flat bottom so they could be stood on end, blades facing up on the table. In nearly every case with such knife handles, just the vestiges of the iron blades remain due to so many years of corrosion in the ground. A beautiful reminder that even in the Roman provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia, there was still decorum in middle-class Roman homes.