Those of you who went to Horace Mann...it's a strigil, an instrument used to scrape the remains of the sand and oil that the Romans used instead of soap off the body. "Strigil" was the second of the daily vocabulary words we were taught by the beloved Mr. Glidden...it came right between "zarf" (an ornamental coffee cup holder) and "duniwassal" (a Scottish gentleman of second rank").
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