Crucifixion Burials
Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:47:18 +0000 (00918308838, 19990206074718.INWD26415@LOCALNAME)
Hello again, Bones!
At 08:44 PM 2/5/99 -0600, eric/cindy bach wrote:
--much snipped--
>BACH
>Thanks, as always, Joe, but I'm not sure this helps Joe Alward with his
>question. He wants some kind of proof that the Romans did not usually bury
>crucifixion victims, as I understand it. He will probably question what the
>practices of the Zoroastrians have to do with any of this. Ed Tyler has
>responded to this in detail, but evidently not to Joe A's satisfaction.
>I have nothing else to offer except that I saw a television documentary
>that seems to bear out what Ed is saying......that of all the burial sites
>that have been excavated in the ANME area, only one set of bones found in
>an ossuary with others showed any obvious signs of death by
>crucifixion.....it had a bent over metal spike still in place between bones
>of either the feet or hands as I recall.
CREA
That was THROUGH, not BETWEEN a bone (calcaneus) of the right foot. See
the posting I made a little earlier today to Alward on the subject.
With Mettaa.
Joseph Crea
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