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Young Men Using Strigils
Young Men Using Strigils

Image credit: Wellcome Collection

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The use of strigils for scraping the skin after bathing or exercise is illustrated. After an Attic kylix (drinking cup) of the mid-fifth century BC by the Euaion Painter in the Museo Gregoriano-Etrusco, Musei Vaticani, catalogue no. 16558

Wellcome Collection

London

Title

Young Men Using Strigils

Date

1937

Medium

gouache on watercolour board

Measurements

H 13.8 x W 24.8 cm

Accession number

34568i

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1937

Work type

Watercolour

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