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A Roman Bronze Strigil
c. 1st-2nd Century A.D.

 
Item Number: 3XYB1
Category: Roman
Period: Roman
Date: c. 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Material: Bronze
Length: 9 1/4" (23.5cm)
Display Stand: Mounted
Price: $ 2200 (USD)
Status: Available
Description: Solid cast rectangular handle with L-shaped wide curving blade, the exterior ornamented with a pointed petal in shallow relief.
Provenance: Ex. New York Private Collection.

Condition: Intact

References:

Naples Museum, Inv. 70079. Illus. Pompeii, AD 79 (Boston, 1978) p. 193.

Les Sports dans la Grèce antique: du jeu à la compétition, D. Venhoven,
ed., Ghent, 1992, pp.229-230, nos. 91-92.

Keywords: Strigil: After exercising or engaging in competition Greek and Roman athletes would scrape the dust off their body with a strigil. The process was facilitated by covering the body with olive oil prior to exercising.

 
A Roman Bronze Strigil











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