The nimph with tongs? pincers? (f80r)

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Again, my arguments are:

1) I never saw it in the literature and images here. read about 1500 pages on bathing culture.
2) How can you use TWO which are attached that is like using two toothbrushes at the same time. One in your nose and one on the teeth.
3) how nice is the chain, or how impractical is that. .. ..I was talking about the chain on the flesh. have you ever felt a chain on your flesh?

People wear chains around their necks, wrists, and ankles all the time. I'd rather have a chain on my flesh that a blade-like scrapy thing.  

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I suspect the ones with chains are more likely to have a hinge to remove the scrapers but they do seem to frequently come in pairs—for what reason, I'm not sure. Here's a picture of one being You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Like the ones on vases, it's being used singly. But this You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (a mosaic), shows them in pairs.

By the way, I'm not saying they were used in pairs, only that they appear to frequently come in pairs, and that a bath girl (or other servant or slave in a bath house) might be holding two at the same time.