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Strigil (I scan my skin)
Strigil Paul Tulipana My skin is the literal limit of my subject's object. It is the end of my self as long as I am constituted in my body. Better still, my horizon, always ...
http://www.paultulipana.net/doc/Strigil.pdf
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The Olympic Games in Antiquity
After the events, the athlete would take his strigil, a curved instrument, and scrape the sweat, oil and sand off his skin. He then finished cleaning himself with water and a sponge.
http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_658.pdf
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Athlete's equipment
history | education | body beautiful! Ure Museum, The University of Reading Athlete's equipment A strigil and an aryballos were the basic cleaning equipment used by a Greek athlete ...
http://www.reading.ac.uk/Ure/leaflets/Ure_athletes.pdf
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InterestIng Facts about ancIent rome
Instead of soap, Romans used oil, which they rubbed into their skin and then scraped off with a metal tool called a strigil . When the Roman Empire reached its territorial peak in ...
http://www.afaweb.org/exhibitions/details/documents/InterestingFactsaboutAncientRome.pdf
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Using the Loan Service
... of a Roman hypocaust under Perspex, size: 60 x 45 x 15 cm. 2-129A ROMAN BATHS Oil and perfume flasks Brooches Bracelet Ring Bead Dress-pin Hairpin Ear-scoop Nail-cleaner Tweezers Strigil ...
http://www.carisbrookecastlemuseum.org.uk/documents/loans_catalogue.pdf
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A TRIP TO THE BATHS
(Slave rubs oil onto Roman) Narrator This oil mixes with sweat and dirt on your skin, lovely eh? The slave then uses a strigil (Slave holds up strigil to show to the audience)
http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/SupportSheets/supportsheet31Thermae.pdf
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The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece
After the events, the athlete would take his strigil , a curved instrument, and scrape the sweat, oil and sand off his skin. He then finished cleaning himself with water and a sponge
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/dfrankl/CURR/kin375/PDF/Ancient_Olympics_report.pdf
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How did we improve our washing methods since prehistory?
... Greeks "washed" themselves with lumps of clay, had steam baths and rubbed their skin with oil, such as olive oil, which they then scraped off with an instrument called a "strigil ...
http://www.scienceinthebox.com/en_UK/pdf/history-of-washing.pdf
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Majority Rules: Ancient Greek Art and Culture
Strigil A small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available. First perfumed oil was applied to the skin ...
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/PDF/Greek_Passport_Vocabulary.pdf
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Roman Baths Explorer trail
They used a strigil to scrape it off. It removed all the sweat and dirt. Hot room (caldarium). This room would be very hot to make you sweat. Warm room (tepidarium).
http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/pdf/RomanBathsexplorertrail2009.pdf
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