In addition to reproductions, the show has original artifacts of decorated serving bowls, clay figurines of horses and riders, and three examples of a strigil, a metal implement used to scrape athletes'bodies clean after competition.
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This Roman statue from the first century AD, copied from a Greek original from the fourth century BC, has been recreated from 234 fragments; it shows a young athlete cleaning his strigil, an implement used to wash the body after a contest.
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They appear to neither represent additional workmen, nor the owners of the workshop, but rather random passers-by on the way to or from the " athletic activity, as indicated by the sports-related items ( an oil flask and a strigil ) suspended behind them.
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In Crete, a tomb dating from the second half of the 3rd century BC held a rich variety of grave goods, including fine gold jewelry, a gold tray with the image of a bird, a clay vessel, a bronze mirror, a bronze strigil, and a bronze " Charon coin " depicting Zeus.
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A section of the exhibition devoted to the training grounds depicts-- on vases, sculpture, coins and such-- the care athletes gave to their bodies, showing various sports that were practiced to music, as well as the important cleansing process of oiling the skin and scraping it with a curved instrument called a strigil.
