[snip] Among the objects buried with him were a tool used to scrape oil from the skin known as a strigil and a finely crafted copper alloy vessel called a balsamarium. This container is thought to have held skin-cleansing oils or balms used after exercise and during bathing... [/snip]
I actually did the strigel thing during a months-long Army field deployment, when logistics failed and we only had enough water to drink for a few days. One barely sharp bayonet (which we never used) and Johnson’s Baby Lotion worked very well - long before I learned that was common practice thousands of years ago.
Necessity IS the mother of invention. There was a Lieutenant who needed crucifying but he wasn’t worth all that effort.