A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 131
warm, and cold water alternately over his head, then to scrapehimself with the strigil, and finally to anoint himself—the lastprobably a precaution against taking cold. This description willenable us to understand the use of the implements carried bybathers. Of these the strigil is most important.… … Fig. 126.—Bronze Stbigils and Oil-Flask (No. 337). Ca. -2:1. (fig. 125), drawn from a Greek vase of the fifth century B.C., showsan athlete resting after exercise, and about to use the strigil. Sonictimes a strigil, oil-flask, and sponge are seen on vases, suspendedfrom the wall of the palaestra…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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