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The Arrotino (Italian – the Blade-Sharpener) or formerly the Scythian thought to be a figure from a group representing the Flaying of Marsyas is a Hellenistic-Roman sculpture (Pergamene school) of a man crouching to sharpen a knife on a whetstone. The sculpture was excavated in the early sixteenth century for it is recognizable in an inventory made after the death of Agostino Chigi (1520) of his villa in Trastevere which would become the Villa Farnesina.
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