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The strigil (Latin: strigilis) or stlengis (Ancient Greek: στλεγγίς, probably a loanword from the Pre-Greek substrate) is a tool for the cleansing of the body by scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil that was applied before bathing in Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.
Apoxyomenos (Greek: Αποξυόμενος, plural apoxyomenoi: [1] the "Scraper") is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Greeks called a stlengis and the Romans a strigil.
A bronze strigil used to scrape oil and sweat off the body of a bather. One major component of a visit to the baths was working out and building athleticism. In Roman baths, there was often a palaestra, an outdoor courtyard surrounded by columns, which bathers would use like a modern day gym. [10]
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Attic kylix with athlete cleansing himself with a strigil, 430-20 BC. The ancient Greeks also valued rest after exercising. After a workout, athletes used their aryballos, a special bottle of oil, and a strigil, which is a curved stick. They would rub the oil on their skin and then scrape it off using the strigil.
On November 11, 1875, a bronze strigil with similar fragments. On November 16 of 1875, a necklace of gold with emeralds and pearls and parts of a silver service as well as an ivory statuette depicting Venus were recovered in the atrium. The next day coins, a stamped seal with the following letters L. VAL. F. Lun. M 40 and an inkwell with lid ...
Strigilodus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish within the order Petalodontiformes.This genus existed during the Lower Carboniferous period, approximately 350 million years ago.
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.