ROMAN BRONZE STRIGIL

Circa 100-200 AD With concave scoop blade, decorated on the exterior with vertical fluting in the form of a slender leaf with a pointed tip, the hollow handle of rectangular cross-section For similar see: Naples Museum, Inv. 70079. Pompeii, AD 79, Boston, 1978, p. 193, illus. D. Venhoven, Les Sports dans la Grace antique: Du jeu a la competition, Ghent, 1992, pp.229-230, nos. 91-92. Literature: Cf. S. Walker, Roman Art, (The British Museum Press, London 1991), fig.71, p.57. Strigils were used by the Romans to scrape oil from the body at the gymnasium or baths.Size: L: 255mm / W:24mm ; 110gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old London collection formed in the 1990s.