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XIII.—An Account of Implements for the Bath found in a Stone Coffin at Urdingen, near Düsseldorf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

George Witt
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The Romans are said to have ascribed their power of conquering the world as much to the strigil as to the sword; in other words, the exercises appertaining to the bath rendered their limbs so supple, and their bodily movements so active and powerful, that it was rare for them to find any other people who could long stand against them in the hand-to-hand engagements which characterised the warfare of those times.

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Archaeologia , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , 1872 , pp. 250 - 257
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1872

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References

page 250 note a Grivaud de la Vincelle, Arts et Métiers, pl. lxxiii.

page 253 note a Crefelder Zeitung. Dienstag, den 7 Mai, 1861.

page 255 note a The original strigil is in Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.

page 255 note a Mr. Witt, before his death, which took place in February, 1869, presented to the British Museum this curious set of antiquities, together with the remarkable series of strigils and other bath implements which he had collected.–C. S. P.