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They say Roman justice is hard justice. I’d agree with that, but in my case it’s unfair justice. I don’t belong on this cross! The word “guilty” inscribed in my titulus is nothing but a naked lie!
I’m simply nothing more than a victim of Roman politics ... of the evil, backstabbing machinations that typify the never ending quest for imperial power.
I did nothing wrong. I committed no crime. I was simply the daughter of a Roman general ... barbarian by birth, but uplifted to prominence and Roman citizenship by his glorious service to the Empire ...and deemed a threat by his enemies in Rome who feared his growing popularity.
So they came in the night, invaded our villa, slew his bodyguards and arrested the entire household. I was taken from my bed and dragged off to a cell somewhere deep in the city, stripped of my clothing, abused unmercifully by my jailers, and hauled at dawn, along with the rest of my family and household, before a mock court. We were condemned without defense for trumped up treasonous acts, stripped of our Roman citizenship, and taken away to be publicly executed.
And so, here I hang at the side of the road just beyond the city gates ... naked and lewdly exposed to each and every passerby ...third in line after my father and mother, and followed in line by siblings, servants and slaves ... my titulus bearing the single word ... an outright lie ... “guilty”.
I twist and writhe in the fearsome heat of the summer day ... my skin sheened in sweat, filthy and marred by the whip ... my fingers flexing and clawing at air as the nails through my wrists grind painfully at nerves and bone ... my legs splayed to openly display my battered womanhood,
I do my best to close my ears to the taunts and ridicule. I shut my eyes and focus my mind elsewhere ... channel it into angry thoughts and imaginary acts of revenge.
There is no such thing, I know for certain, as Roman justice ... there is only Roman guile, jealousy, treachery and deception.
My titulus should more rightly read ‘innocent victim” rather than “guilty”.