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M 340 Strigil, bronze Published AJA 1946
[photograph] 1:13 J.G.41.36 [photograph] 1:15 K.G.36.15
Of sheet bronze; badly suffered from bronze desease; worse parts covered with wax to preserve bronze from further disentigration; inpresent condition it is not clear whether t he under side of the handle is an extension of the blade or whether the two are welded; the upper portion of the handle is made by folding the extension of the lower portion up, over, and down again to meet the handle end of the blade. See M 271 for similar type from Tomb 1. See also M 332 from Tomb 8 for variation of this type. Handle broken at corners & blade at handle end; mended; complete.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain