Window into the Bible
Athletics - Personal Care
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Pelike with Image of Young Man with Strigil in front of Washbasin
Date: c. 480 BC. Place: Unknown
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Photographed at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
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Early Corinthian Aryballos
Date: 620 – 590 BC Place: Greece
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Originally filled with oil which would have been used to clean athletes after exercise.
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Oil Flask and Two Strigils on a Ring
Date: 1st century BC. Place: Roman
Photographed at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
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Made of Silver.
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Bronze Strigil
Date: 3rd century BC. Place: Grave site, Malanca, Italy
Photographed at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany. |
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Bronze Strigil
Date: unknown Place: Greece
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Previously owned by Heinrich Schliemann.
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Used to scrape oil and dust off athletes after exercise.
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Two Strigils
Date: 2nd century AD. Place: Unknown (by museum)
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. |