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mp5stab said:
I think you all are missing the most significant aspect of this finding though; it means that odds are much better that crucifixion was usually done with nails. I mean, we figured, but there is a persons believe that ropes were just as common.
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The ancient evidence for ropes is very thin anyway -- an ancient novel mentions it as customary in Egypt, yet tying the hero to the cross instead of nailing him was, eh, narrative-driven. Getting off the cross, running around and winning the heroine -- all that was hard to do with a set of festering wounds.

Then there's this -- much better, but not enough to say ropes were more common than nails.
 
mp5stab said:
I think you all are missing the most significant aspect of this finding though; it means that odds are much better that crucifixion was usually done with nails. I mean, we figured, but there is a persons believe that ropes were just as common.
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I never doubted it. Plautus even mentioned in his play, "The Mostellaria," that four nails were used in crucifixion. He was Roman, lived in the second century BC, so he had opportunity to see quite a few crucifixions and know how they were done. The Latin verb "crucifigere" - so I am told - implies fixation to a cross by transfixing rather than tying.
 
Eulalia said:
Some news of an ankle bone with a nail through it recently found in a Roman context near Cambridge:

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Thanks, @Eulalia. Looks like @Migoz2 and I were posting the same link almost simultaneously in two separate threads. Your post with the more detailed link to the British Archaeology Magazine is relevant to both discussions:

Eulalia said:
There's a more detailed discussion of this find, and its context
in this free-access copy of the CBA magazine, British Archaeology -
click on the link below the cover picture - if you just want to read about the nailed bone,
scroll through to the last few pages, 26 ( = 9 in the extract) on:

www.archaeologyuk.org

Free Access to Crucifixion in the Fens: Life and Death in Roman Fenstanton

Exclusively for British Archaeology Magazine, David Ingham & Corinne Duhig report on the excavations, and what they believe to be rare evidence for ancient crucifixion - and the first from northern Europe.
www.archaeologyuk.org www.archaeologyuk.org
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I've read the British Archaeology article -- it appears that the left calcaneum is there as well, and it is intact.

Just possibly the nailing was ritual anchoring of the corpse to prevent “walking”, but a more efficient anchoring might be expected than this single nail inefficiently placed.
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This statement happens to be true for crucifixion as well -- with a vengeance. :devil:
 
Marcius said:
it appears that the left calcaneum is there as well, and it is intact.
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It does seem odd, though his left fibula was in a bad state, though whether caused by an old injury, long-term trauma (such as wearing shackles), being tightly bound (to the stipes?) or some other cause is uncertain. The poor guy seems to have had a wretched life, and to have been more or less crippled by the time he was crucified - so maybe one nail was enough. But then the nails lying around the skeleton are a puzzle too, probably not from a coffin, possibly a wooden bier, but again an anomalous feature of the burial.
 
Eulalia said:
It does seem odd, though his left fibula was in a bad state, though whether caused by an old injury, long-term trauma (such as wearing shackles), being tightly bound (to the stipes?) or some other cause is uncertain. The poor guy seems to have had a wretched life, and to have been more or less crippled by the time he was crucified - so maybe one nail was enough. But then the nails lying around the skeleton are a puzzle too, probably not from a coffin, possibly a wooden bier, but again an anomalous feature of the burial.
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Is there an example of ritual postmortem nailing from Roman Britain, such as considered and rejected by the authors? Because I'm tempted by that hypothesis. One-nail-through-the-heel crux seems too odd.
 
Fliegerbiene said:
Both feet placed on top of each other and fastened with a single nail looks pretty and is probably the classic kind of crucifixion. But I like it better when my feet are next to each other side by side and each foot is nailed with a single nail. If I could only experience one crucifixion, I would choose one nail for each foot. If I was allowed to experience multiple crucifixions, I would try once the single nail version.

(How to experience multiple crucifixions? From a young age I fantasized about a medieval fantasy land where you would be healed and fully restored after being crucified in a sacred grotto or temple. I could be nailed to the cross there so many times as i wanted)
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Have you ever been crucified?
 
piedi said:
Would you nail these feet? How? are there any other solutions?
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maybe post images like that as jpg file instead of PNG
Makes a lot of difference in size. 6MB for such a pic is quite large
 
woodflesh said:
Where were the nails located? Were they hammered through the foot bones??
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on the usual pictures, nails are hammered on the feet, but in reality often they were on the ankles or under the soles too according the position of the condemned or maybe the level of sadism of the executionners : https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/06-zias-crucified-label.jpg
My profile avatar picture provides a real crucifixion hammering during an Easter procession in Asia where the very religious woman let her be crucified (real) : you can find videos on Youtube of real crucifixion in Philipina ....
 
fitoreyes83 said:
Actually I tried crucifixion some time ago and my feet were nailed to the cross
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Reed319 said:
on the usual pictures, nails are hammered on the feet, but in reality often they were on the ankles or under the soles too according the position of the condemned or maybe the level of sadism of the executionners : https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/06-zias-crucified-label.jpg
My profile avatar picture provides a real crucifixion hammering during an Easter procession in Asia where the very religious woman let her be crucified (real) : you can find videos on Youtube of real crucifixion in Philipina ....
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woodflesh said:
Where were the nails located? Were they hammered through the foot bones??
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I've said it before and I will say it again; there is no safe way to 'play' at crucifixion using real nails. Here are the site rules:

We do not allow images or videos which portray real life crux-play using nails, or any content that encourages or assists such activity, which is likely to cause serious, permanent injury or even death, and which could lead to criminal charges.

Likewise, we do not allow videos or images of real people engaged in forms of so-called BDSM which are stupid and dangerous, and could well lead to serious injury or death, or to criminal charges, nor do we allow posts that encourage or assist such activities.
 
Rias said:
Hey I have about 3 plastic suregeron of the feets, with partial anesthesia only and I can tell only this when the doctor start to put big needle in ur feet 3-5 Times without anesthesia on the start its hurts badly and its unpleasant feeling. Also I can tell im very resistant to pain even mine doctor and ppl and family say that. When partial anesthesia start working and doctor slice and tinker with scalpel ur feet u only feel strong (very strong) touch. But after some hours when partial anesthesia stop working its terrible pain… Also sry for mine English possiblity mistakes Im from Poland also :)
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I'm glad to finally meet a member from my country.
 
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