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Drawknife The tool has a wide curved blade, with a tang at each end in which wooden handles were attached and fastened with iron rings. The drawknife was used in removing shavings of wooden objects during processing or in the final finishing stage. This particular artefact is of major archaeological and historical importance due to the presence in the middle of the blade of an inscription in Latin letters: HERENNI. This is the trademark of the craftsman who produced it. His workshop was located in the Roman centre of Aquileia. The finding is probably an import proving the trade relations of the Dacians. The tool was discovered in a dwelling which had been burned down during the Roman wars from the beginning of the 2nd century AD, and a similar one, but with an illegible inscription, was found in the workshop on terrace VIII at Sarmizegetusa Regia. Digitization Method: 3D Laser scanning by a Team from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Data Provider: National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca.