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. Greek athletic sports and festivals . An oil-flask indicates the building, whilea tree suggests the groves of the gymnasium. Scenes in the Apodyterion are very numerous, especially onlater vases. We will first take a kylix in the Museum at ^ Gerh. A. F. 272, and supra, Figs. 63, 64. - Gerh. A.V. 272, 294. ^ Hartwig, Meisterschal. liii. ; Freemau, Schools of Hellas, PI. x. xxri THE GYMNASIUM—WASHING 481 sort of lye obtained from wood ashes, an alkali called litron andsomewhat similar to nitre, and a kind of fullers earth.^ Afteroiling and powdering his body the bather rubbed himself till alat
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. Greek athletic sports and festivals . An oil-flask indicates the building, whilea tree suggests the groves of the gymnasium. Scenes in the Apodyterion are very numerous, especially onlater vases. We will first take a kylix in the Museum at ^ Gerh. A. F. 272, and supra, Figs. 63, 64. - Gerh. A.V. 272, 294. ^ Hartwig, Meisterschal. liii. ; Freemau, Schools of Hellas, PI. x. xxri THE GYMNASIUM—WASHING 481 sort of lye obtained from wood ashes, an alkali called litron andsomewhat similar to nitre, and a kind of fullers earth.^ Afteroiling and powdering his body the bather rubbed himself till alather was obtained. On the red-figured vases the washing takes place in a bath-room forming a part of the gymnasium and probably adjoiningthe apodyterion. In the centre of this room is set a large stoneor metal basin placed on a stand. Close to it a cistern issometimes represented, and on one vase we see a youth pouringwater into the basin from a bucket which he has drawn upfrom the cistern by means of a rope and windlass^ (Fig. 181).. Fig. 181.—Scene on r.-f. vase. (Tisclibein, i. 58.) The inscription on the basin (8r;/xocrta) shows that it is a publicbath. One youth is splashing the water over himself, but amore satisfactory way of washing is to get a friend or assistantto swill a bucket of water over you in the manner represented ona kylix in the British Museum (Fig. 182). On the other sideof this kylix is seen a group of youths scraping themselves withstrigils {(TTXeyyiSes). The strigil was in constant use in thegymnasium to remove dirt and sweat after exercise or removemoisture and lather after the bath. It Avas made of iron orbronze, sometimes of silver or even of gold; the handles are ^ Aristoph. 7?aw. 710.^ Tischbeiu, i. 58 ; Schreiber, Atlas, xxiii. 3. 2i 482 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAr. sometimes highly ornamental. Many of them exist in theBritish Museum and elsewhere. Their shape will be best under-stood from the accompanying illustration of a fifth-ce
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Photographe : Reading Room 2020
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LMY24T01_2CE724B
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