Incredible work! Thank you for posting it. I spent some time savoring it, and this girl about halfway down the line stands out to me, not only for the contrast with the smiling legionary in the foreground:
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These poor crucified people have been given some devious little sediles. They are enough for a person to brace their naked, sweaty ass against, but not enough to support even the weight of a petite little girl like this one. She is going to have to keep her leg muscles (mostly her quads), activated to stay on the sedile and breathing easy.
Most of the others crucified earlier on have given up the struggle and are not using their sediles. But this girl still fights for life. She had so much to look forward to. Betrothal to a kind man. A wedding night. Birthing children and surviving the ordeal to suckle them at her breasts. Grandchildren of her own, in time. Maybe becoming the family matriarch.
All that is gone now. Her life ended the moment the Romans marched her out of the gates, stumbling and crying with her patibulum tied to her skinny shoulders. She has not accepted that fact yet. She still tries to sit on her sedile, even as her legs cramp and shake. It won’t be long now until her body does what her spirit will not and give up. She’ll cry out as she slides down the cross into the crouching position of those who are simply waiting to die.
No matter what she does, this is the poor girl’s last day.