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What specific evidence of a scourging is visible in the images?
There are dozens upon dozens of dumbbell shaped welts and contusions. The patterns, shapes and size of the wounds are consistent with a Roman flagrum, a whip of short leather thongs tipped with bits of lead, bronze or bone which tore into flesh and muscle.
There is blood presumably from the flagellation and even a bit of tissue thought by medical experts to be a torn-out bit of muscle.
From the angles of attack – the way the marks fall on the man’s back, buttocks, and legs – it seems that man was whipped by two men, one taller than the other, who stood on either side of the victim.
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