Motivated by this thread,
I really started thinking about the nailing of a victim.
How would I handle it? Do I have to take a closer look at the wood of the cross, too?
There is so many different ways to crucify a victim,
it's not that easy to focus. Just picture all the variations, how to possibly attach the condemned.
Previously I have considered a very "classical" way of nailing in this thread, and will follow that idea.
Of course, crucifying that way is at the first glance not that spectacular. Many pictures have been painted,
movies and photos have been shot, showing Jesus on the cross attached with 3 nails.
It came to my mind, that the wood used for the stipes, patibulum and
sedile probably would play a role, too, when a person is nailed the way I have described it previously.
If I'd be responsible for a reasonable nailing,
I'd make the patibulum and the sedile out of light wood like pine or spruce.
The stipes though, could be made out of oak or beech.
- Softer wood can open for the nails much easier, therefore it's less stressful to nail the victim to the wood.
- A patibulum will not be as heavy, when it's made out of pine or spruce.
- It's really helping the victim on the march to the sessorium, and will later also reduce the
weight of the assembled cross.
- I lower the chance that the victim will collapse on the march, or die prior to the actual execution.
- Even when the condemned is raised with the patibulum, the victim can help the executioners much better
to attach the patibulum to the stipes.
- Under normal circumstances will the stipes stay in the ground and is exposed to the weather.
I don't see a problem to use a more resistant and heavier wood like oak or beech, to make the stipes out of it.
- For entertaining, horrifying and excitement reasons can the cross be assembled on the ground.
Is the condemned now raised with the cross, the crucifiction team will still benefit from the light patibulum.
It sure doesn't play any role, who is nailing the delinquent to the cross. I don't think it was restricted by sex.
Women could have handled every stage in a crucifiction and probably were asigned to execution teams, just like men.
But naturally everybody has it's own ideas about it.
Never knowing what will happen, keeps it shocking for the condemned.
The nailing was probably a little bit like a signature
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) of Repertor I'll repost the images of Jasmine's nailing here:
