The next morning, the guards broke into the cell, detached them and pushed them unceremoniously and beating them into the prison yard.
The young men put their hands in front of their genitals, ashamed to find themselves naked in the open air in front of the guards and the Roman soldiers who are busy on all sides. 4 beams are waiting for them on the ground: these are their patibulum. Each convict must take one and balance it on his shoulders. They thus take the pose of crucified which makes them all the more concrete their torment to come. In front of the soldiers, they remain for long minutes standing, legs apart, sex hanging between their thighs, slightly leaning forward to better carry the heavy beam.
They lower their heads, both so as not to see their comrades naked with their arms crossed and humiliated by their own nudity that they can no longer hide behind their hands. Guards come to securely attach their wrists or elbows to their patibulum. Then under the pretext of checking that they are firmly attached, they have fun pinching their nipples, pulling on their limb or shaking their balls in their hand. The 4 young men try to stay stoic but can't help but tremble and moan.
Finally, before setting off for the nearby arena, the guards tie a rope around the waist ofAmset and Anhour and jam a strip of cloth in it to comply with the sentence that specifies that they must be stripped naked in public in the arena. But there is no question of giving them back their rich clothes and adornments that will be sold for the benefit of the soldiers. The two young men therefore have their sex and their buttocks barely hidden behind this improvised loincloth of questionable cleanliness. Tiresias and Salmu are a little luckier and each inherit a dirty, holey tunic and a belt rope that further cover their nudity.
For all four, no fabric covers the sides of their body and in profile one can see their sex behind the fabric. But for them it's better than nothing and they feel a little relieved to no longer be naked like beasts and to have their modesty spared for now.
A soldier comes to stand behind each convict and moves him forward by pushing the beam. They thus guide the 4 young men to the passage that connects the prison to the amphitheater.
They can hear the clamor of the crowd who welcome the arrival of the governor and who become impatient while waiting for their arrival in the arena. They are terrorized but advance meekly guided each by their soldier.
In the lead, tiresias first advances, wrists tied on the front of the beam that rests on his neck and shoulders, he looks terrified and moves forward staggering the absent gaze.
Then comes the beautiful Anhour with a hairy chest whose semblance of a very narrow loincloth does not hide the hairy edges of its pubis to the right and left. He startled at every clamour of the crowd and looked about to burst into tears.
In third place is the proud Salmu who looks more angry than frightened. It was his arms that were tied with the elbows bent forward. He serves fists and teeth and advances in his dirty and holey tunic.
The slave Amset closes the march with his wrists attached to the back of the patibulum. He moves forward, resigned, knowing that whatever happens he will be executed by the fault of his master and his friends. Although almost naked with as clothing only two narrow strips of fabrics covering just his crotch and part of his buttocks, he does not appear embarrassed. It is true that it was already exposed naked in front of the crowd of buyers when it was acquired by the family ofAnhour.