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Strigil
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Strigil

3rd century B.C.
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsLength: (a) 9 cm (3 9/16 in.) / (b) 12cm (4 3/4 in.) / (c) 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number13.2874a-e
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTools and equipment
ProvenanceAbout 1879, discovered on property belonging to the Count Lucioli, Chiusi, Italy (one of a group of objects said to have been found together in a tomb near Chiusi, probably in the Colle Lucioli just east of Chiusi, MFA 13.2860-13.2901). By 1913: with Raoul Tolentino, 57 Via Sistina, Rome; purchased by MFA from Raoul Tolentino, November 6, 1913