Bronze strigil. Strigils were used by athletes, after the games, to scrape clean their body of oil and dust 450-400 BC.

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Keywords: 450-400, ancient, archival, archive, athletes, bathing, bc., body, bronze, clean, cleaning, dust, games, greece, greek, historical, history, hygiene, oil, scrape, strigil., strigils