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Modern plaque in a holding cell in the Roman Forum. This plaque details the various means by which prisoners were killed once the Romans sentenced them, e.g. decapitato, suppliziato (drowning), stragolati, morte per fame (starvation). I was particularly interested in this plaque because it listed Vercingetorix, a Gallic king who I read about in Latin class in high school in Caesar's Conquest of Gaul. There was another plaque in the same room listing early Christians who had been killed and who had been held in the same room, but I didn't get a photo of that. Creepy. |
