Apoxyomenos

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What Wikipedia says

Apoxyomenos (Greek: Αποξυόμενος, plural apoxyomenoi: the "Scraper") is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Greeks called a stlengis and the Romans a strigil.

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