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This is a copy of a Greek statue depicting two wrestlers. Greeks wrestled in the nude, save for a band some used to tie their foreskin closed, their bodies covered in a mixture of olive oil and sand. After competition, they scraped off the mixture of oil and sweat, known as gloios, with a tool called a strigil. Gloios was sometimes bottled and sold as medicine to reduce pain. Yes, people consumed this sweaty man oil.