Mar 22, 2024
Strigil, or scraper, used to scrape sweat, oil, and sand off the body after exercise, 3rd century BC, Greece.
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Strigil, or scraper, used to scrape sweat, oil, and sand off the body after exercise, 3rd century BC, Greece.
Bronze strigil (scraper), Greek, 5th-4th Century BCE
From the Met Museum
Bronze toilet articles
* Etruscan girl-athlete (strigil), Ajax and Thetis (mirror), Trojan war (cista)
* Praenestine
* British Museum
London, July 2022
Praxiteles, Apoxyomenos (the Scraper), Vatican Museums
Ludovisi sarcophagus with dextrarum iunctio, 320 VS Herzog & de Meuron, Apartment and commercial building in Schützenmattstrasse, Basel, Switzerland, 1992-1993
Apoxyomenos (athlete scraping his body with a strigil). Bronze. Roman copy of a bronze original by Polykleitos ca. 320 BCE. Inv. No. 129. Vienna, Ephesos Museum. Photo: © 2012. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Learn more / Daha fazlası Strigilis: http://www.archaeologs.com/w/strigil/
~ Apoxyomenos (athlete scraping his body with a strigil).
Roman copy of a bronze original by Polykleitos ca. 320 B.C.
Medium: Bronze
Provenance: Vienna, Ephesos Museum
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