Ancient Daggers and Knives

Short blades carried as sidearms and tools in antiquity, including the Roman pugio and the curved Greek kopis. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a dagger or knife of the ancient world. It excludes longer swords, which sit in the ancient swords group. These blades served as the last weapon of a soldier whose spear or sword was lost, and as tools for cutting food and rope, and their forms are known from museum finds and from written sources of Greece and Rome.