Strigil

Latin: strigilis, pl. strigiles
Also: strigile (IT); strigile (FR); strigilis (DE); estrígil (ES)

A sickle-shaped hollow blade usually made out of metal, wood or bone, to scrape off dirt, oil and sweat after physical exercises or massages.

A selection of strigils.
R: Set of four strigils attached to a ring. Bronze (MET, inv. 40.59a-e; public domain).
BL: Two glass strigils from a tomb in Nîmes (Gagnol et al. 2023, fig. 10; CC BY 4.0).
TL: Miniature lead strigils from a tomb in Alba-la-Romaine (© Denis Gliksman, Inrap; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).