DAGGERS OF THE HIGH ROMAN EMPIRE ARMY IN HISPANIA

This paper is the first diachronic study of daggers in the Roman Army of occupation in Hispania (Spain and Portugal), dated between the 1(st) century BC and the 3(rd) century AD. The fifty seven specimens that are currently known are analysed, together with a smaller number (eight) of the remains of their sheaths, as no further examples have been found subsequently. After the wars of conquest, although they did not vary too far from the fashions that were in favour at any time, the products in the Iberian Peninsula were noticeably different from those in the vast area of the Limes, which was in the vanguard. The daggers of the first century had neither precedents nor continuity.