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To: LindyBill who wrote (30622)2/20/2004 7:12:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 793937
 
The Roman method was that the main timber was carried by the person to be crucified, and the cross piece was roped on at the site after it had been planted in the ground.

The upright at a crucifixion was either a tree trunk or a timber 16 or 18 feet long (so they could sink 4 feet to stabilize it), much too long for the prisoner to have dragged the cross through the streets. Roman streets were full of stepping stones at corners so that pedestrians could cross the street without stepping into horse manure. This would have made dragging the whole thing even more impossible. But, that's how traditional Catholic iconography shows it when portraying the Stations of the Cross, so that's how Mel Gibson will show it.
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