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Source Description
This strigil has a broad blade of beaten bronze soldered to a handle of cast bronze. The handle is attached to the blade and loops around the back. It has a broad, flat front and a smaller back. It ends at the front with a plaque in the form of three leaves that is soldered to the blade. In the back is a plaque in the form of one leaf riveted to the front of the handle and the blade. The larger leaf plaque is decorated by lines at its edges, the smaller with two incised loops. The width of the blade suggests that this strigil is Etruscan.
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Document identity
localId
27227
label
Strigil
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obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
27227
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Strigil
description
This strigil has a broad blade of beaten bronze soldered to a handle of cast bronze. The handle is attached to the blade and loops around the back. It has a broad, flat front and a smaller back. It ends at the front with a plaque in the form of three leaves that is soldered to the blade. In the back is a plaque in the form of one leaf riveted to the front of the handle and the blade. The larger leaf plaque is decorated by lines at its edges, the smaller with two incised loops. The width of the blade suggests that this strigil is Etruscan.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th century BCE (Classical)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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strigils
scrapers
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
26.3
height
13.4
depth
3.8
dimensionsRaw
L: 10 3/8 × max D: 5 1/4 × max W: 1 1/2 in. (26.3 × 13.4 × 3.8 cm)
Source extras
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Etruscan
med
bronze
creator_ids
6291
collection_ids
ROM
GRC
exhibition_ids
796
2189
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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