Frances wrote:Thomas An. wrote:I am not religious, but I don't think they were sitting like that in reality... looks too comfy.
It was very well thought-out, this method of torture. Rest your weight on the "seat" and your lungs are constricted so that you can't breath. Take your weight off the seat and increase the agony in your wrists and feet and use up your strength. Christ died of suffocation.
Suffocation is correct.
The sitting posture on that perpendicular post seems inaccurate.
--->It maybe ok as an artistic expression though.<---
For example
an artist may choose to depict Moses having sort of a secret bachelor's party / orgy, as a means to quench his desires, up in the mountain for 40 days before inventing/drafting the new set of rules and then ruse the Israelites to believe a divene origine for that text (a benevolent ruse is often necessary to boost morale and instill discipline in the masses)