In the interesting collection of antiquities from the Cyrenaica which the Museum has recently acquired through Mr. Dennis, is the handle of a bronze strigil, on which are stamped the words ΤΡΙΑΚΑΤΙΩΝ ΑΘΛΟΝ. The letters, which are in relief within an oblong incuse, are of a good period. The τριακάς was a political division of the φυλή at Athens, and of the ὠβή at Sparta, and the τριακάτιοι were the ephebi belonging to a τριακάς. In an inscription discovered by Smith and Porcher at Cyrene, and published in their History of Discoveries, p. 110, No. 6, which gives a list of various military divisions, we find, line 14, τριακατιάρχαι, and lines 51 and 52, ζύμμ[οροι]? τοῖς τριακατίοις. This inscription, taken in connection with that on the strigil, confirms the statement of Eustath. in Odyss. p. 292, 1. 26, ed. Lips. 1825, ἐν Κυρήνῃ τοὺς ἐφήβονς τριακατίους καλοῦσι. See Hesych. s. v. τριακάτιοι. ed. Albert, ii. p. 1412, and note 26, ibid. The inscription on the strigil shows that it was the prize given to the ephebi, probably for a victory in some gymnastic contest.