The strigil (Latin: strigilis) or stlengis (Greek: στλεγγίς, probably a loanword from the Pre-Greek substrate) is a tool for the cleansing of the body...

small curved instrument that the Greeks called a stlengis and the Romans a strigil. The most renowned Apoxyomenos in Classical Antiquity was that of Lysippos...

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Callipyge statue, 1st or 2nd Century B.C. An Ancient Greek athlete using a strigil, which is a device used for cleaning off oil and dirt Ancient Greek sprinters...

olive oil to cleanse themselves by applying it to their bodies and using a strigil to remove the excess. This was sometimes left on the floor for the slaves...

naked, rubbing their bodies with olive oil and then cleaning with the Strigil. Historically, the gymnasium was used for exercise, communal bathing (Thermae)...

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. In this way, they...

for scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil to cleanse the body. The strigil was most commonly used by male athletes, although in other cultures such...

most likely scrape the by now grimy oil with the help of a curved metal strigil off his skin, before finally moving to the frigidarium with its small pool...

Institute of Art Bronze statue of an athlete from Ephesus cleaning his strigil; 1st century CE copy of a possible original by Polykleitos Pan with flute...

the discus thrown. Men would oil themselves and remove the excess with a strigil (cf. the well known Apoxyomenus of Lysippus from the Vatican Museum). Often...

scalp or the skin. Another ancient device that creates mild bruising is a strigil, used by Greeks and Romans in the bath. Archaeologically there is no precedent...

olive oil to their masters' bodies, which was then scraped off with a strigil, a scraper made of wood or bone. Roman bath-houses were also provided for...

sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument called a strigil. After the Croatian Apoxyomenos was raised from the sea in 1999, it was...

oil into the skin and then scrape away both the oil and any dirt with a strigil. The standard design is a curved blade with a handle, all of which is made...

for a massage with oils and final scraping with metal implements called strigils. Some baths also contained a laconicum (a dry, resting room) where the...

Press. ISBN 0-7914-3042-1. Butler, Margaret Erwin (2008). Of Swords and Strigils: Social Change in Ancient Macedon. Stanford, CA: Stanford University. Cartledge...

competitions was very important for the athletes. First, they used the strigil to scrape the oils and dust off their bodies. Then, they were massaged...

graphic device appears on a mosaic: a phallic oil can is surrounded by strigils in the shape of female genitalia, juxtaposed with an "Ethiopian" water-bearer...

the oil with ash, and we know they used a scraping implement called a strigil. In the Roman baths, a man would bathe in this way before taking a Caldarium...

33 cm. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. Lounging next to the tepidarium, a curvaceous beauty takes her rest. She holds a strigil in her right hand....

"because the scrapings, which the Argonauts formed when they used their strigils, became congealed, the pebbles on the shore remain variegated still to...

upon the bare ground; and never washed or cleansed his body with oil and strigil." Smedley, Edward; Rose, Hugh James; Rose, Henry John. (1845). Encyclopaedia...

Two Roman strigils (scrapers for body cleansing with sand and oil) in bronze. One has a name on the handle, the other is decorated with a grotesque mask...

substances, and then scraping it off with a special curved spatula, a strigil. The plants in the genus Equisetum ("horsetails") are also called "scouring...

in works such as the Ephebe of Antikythera (340 BC), the Athlete with Strigil of Ephesus and the Ephebe of Marathon. Among the artists who excelled in...

emerged as a Roman colony during the 1st century BC. The collection includes strigils, ornate glass vases, ceramics, a glass paste cup, lamps, and fragments...

getting inside the urns. In 2018, archaeologists also discovered many strigils, some of them iron, but most of them bronze. Archaeologists also uncovered...

an assistant is sometimes called "squeegee boy"). Cleret Squeegee man Strigil Doctor blade "squeege". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford...

been recreated from 234 fragments; it shows a young athlete cleaning his strigil, an implement used to wash the body after a contest. This motif was well-known...