PAIR OF KNIVES WITH ROUDED TIPS AND WILD BOAR SHAPED POMMEL

Description The knives, practically identical on both sides, have a curved blade as an extension of the handle, which is also curved. The thin blade is long and narrow, with the edge on the convex side and the tip rounded. The flat handle is decorated longitudinally with four parallel, finely twisted cord motifs: two are arranged along the contour, while the two central ones are divided by a thin raised rib. The handle ends with the flattened figurine of a standing boar seen in profile, with its head facing the concave side of the knife. The animal's fur is represented by dense parallel, schematic and thin features. The space between the legs houses an irregularly shaped through hole, which allowed the knife to be hung on a support or lace. Knives of this type, most likely, had a different purposes other than war.