cmeinsen said:
Hammerlock said:
Did the Romans leave the victums hanging on the cross after death?
I repeat the chorus, Cmeinsen, "Nobody Really Knows."
And it probably depended on the When and Where. For a once-off mass crucifixion such as that done to the followers of Spartacus, they were probably left to rot in place. For crucifixions near an urban area, the Romans were keen on hygiene, and to mitigate nose pollution and spread of disease might have taken down the crucified and thrown them into garbage dumps.
Then there are cases like the capital-C Crucifixion, in which the followers of Jesus requested and got permission to take him down and give him a proper burial.
How common was that? Again, Nobody Knows. The circumstances of capital punishment in the Roman World are sufficiently vague that thee and me and anyone who wants to can just Make Stuff Up. Within limits, mostly dictated by physics.
For instance, Jedakk recently convinced me that nailing anybody through the heels almost certainly never happened. The nail would shatter the heel bone, the remaining tissues could not take the weight of the victim, and the feet would simply tear away from the nails, a "yuck" moment even by the standards of most of us crux pervs.
That's too bad. A scene in a story I'm working on now has to be re-worked.
*sigh*