A blade for coments; old, early, or very early

fernando · 23rd August 2010, 05:23 PM

A few days ago i have had a local opinion on this piece, which sounded fairly reasonable, as within not far from some of the impressions posted here, namely those from Lee: an utility knife of the afalcatado style, from the Ibero-Roman period.
Ibero-Roman appears to be a term preferred over here, in detriment of the Hispano-Roman attribution used abroad.
I guess that the afalcatado (falcata like) type should be interpreted in a broad sense.
Being its typology an issue that may still constitute a riddle, specialy being of peasant's manufacture, i will take its age range reiterated suggestion worthy of consideration ( I-V century AD).

23rd August 2010, 05:23 PM	#1
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	A few days ago i have had a local opinion on this piece, which sounded fairly reasonable, as within not far from some of the impressions posted here, namely those from Lee: an utility knife of the afalcatado style, from the Ibero-Roman period. Ibero-Roman appears to be a term preferred over here, in detriment of the Hispano-Roman attribution used abroad. I guess that the afalcatado (falcata like) type should be interpreted in a broad sense. Being its typology an issue that may still constitute a riddle, specialy being of peasant's manufacture, i will take its age range reiterated suggestion worthy of consideration ( I-V century AD).