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RMTYT8G8–Punishment of Dirce by brothers Amphion and Zethus depicted on the front of the Etruscan alabaster cinerary urn dated from around 120-110 BC found in Volterra, Italy, now on display in the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany.
RMDB7D9N–slavery, mistreatment, slave is flogged, Egyptian illustration, New Kingdom (circa 1550 - 1070 BC), wood engraving, 19th century, people, men, man, slaves, slave, punishment, punishments, punishment, punishments, fustigation, floggings, drub, drubbing, fustigate, ancient world, ancient times, Egypt, historic, historical, ancient world, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMMY247W–. English: Punishment in Ancient Egypt. Slave (?) beating in Ancient Egypt . Wall painting from 15th century BC Egyptian tomb.. Unknown 493 Slavebeating
RMBB4PNP–In ancient Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans, earning punishment from Zeus.
RFKJG1TW–Ancient punishment stocks outside Chapel of Saint Luke, Western Under Redcastle, Shropshire, England, UK.
RMW57P02–Executors murder convicts outside the city wall in various ways The Vierderlei Death-punishment of the Eel-Ancient Jews, as a few among them borrowed by chance from other peoples (title on object), Numbered top right: 633, death penalty, execution, violent death, being killed, being mishandled and maltreated, seeking death, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1690, paper, etching, h 281 mm × w 362 mm
RMT21522–Tarpeian Rock or Tarpeian Rocks on Capitoline Hill, Site of Execution & Punishment in Ancient Rome Italy
RMKR853D–Lictors carrying fasces. In ancient Rome the Lictors were public officers and bodyguards to the chief Roman magistrates, they carried rods decorated with fasces and inflicted punishment on those sentenced by the magistrate and commanded everyone to pay proper respect to their masters as they went through the city. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
RMTXGY47–Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, Sicily, c570 BC commissioned Perillus of Athens to make a brazen bull in which to execute criminals who were shut up in it then baked alive when fires lit underneath. Phalaris tested out the vile invention on Perillus who became the first victim of his own ingenuity. Bull. 6th century BC French 16th century engraving.
RFK3NE6N–Old illustration of a man suffering the chinese pillory under the view of other people, outdoor. By unidentified author published on Magasin Pittoresque Paris 1839
RM2A82J0K–The punishment for adultery in Guinea (Slave Coast). A man is roasted alive in front of his lover, who is tied in a pit and scalded with boiling water. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.
RM2HDY2HP–1986, historical, outside a school building, a male teacher and teenage boy demonstrate an ancient wooden 'foot and hand lock', known as the stocks, an instrument of corporal punishment, used to restrain and humiliate offenders. A key part of the stocks was the element of public punishment. It's last recored use in Britain was in 1872. The stocks differed from the pillory, which locked the head of the offender forcing them to stand and where custom dictated that their head and beard were shaved.
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RMEC84B8–Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for 'condemnation to beasts') was a form of capital punishment in which the condemned were maimed on the circus arena or thrown to a cage with wild animals; often lions. It was brought to ancient Rome around the 2nd century BC.. From the 1st to 3rd centuries AD; this penalty was mainly applied to the worst criminals; slaves; and early Christians
RM2E3C58J–Fire punishment, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879
RMGFPTEB–“At length did cross an Albatross, through the fog it came…” The Albatross leads the ship out of the ice jam only to be shot by the mariner. From ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), illustration by Arthur C. Michael.
RMTYT99Y–Head of Marsyas. Roman marble copy after a Greek original from 150-100 BC on display in the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany. The head was found in the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla) in Rome, Italy.
RF2CW1WBR–This early 1900s illustration shows an ancient Greek actor in the costume of a Fury. The Erinyes, or Furies in English, were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury. A victim seeking justice could call down the curse of the Erinys upon the criminal.
RM2W9DP2H–Socrates (ca. 470 BC - 399 BC). Greek philosopher. Accused of corrupting the youth, he was condemned to death by the Heliaia (Supreme Court of Ancient Athens). Death of Socrates. Oil on canvas by the Italian painter Giuseppe Diotti (1779-1846). Museo Civico Ala Ponzone. Cremona. Lombardy. Italy.
RMT21520–Tarpeian Rock or Tarpeian Rocks on Capitoline Hill, Site of Execution & Punishment in Ancient Rome Italy
RMK943XC–The cruel treatment of the Helots by the Spartans. The Helots received a stipulated number of beatings every year regardless of any wrongdoing so that they would never forget they were slaves. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
RFK37FAT–Medieval beheading of Jane Grey, young woman accompained by a lord to the stump while the hangman wait for her. Old illustration by Paul Delaroche published on Magasin Pittoresque Paris 1834
RMWWC2CF–Auto-da-fe trial and punishment ceremony by the Spanish Inquisition at Valladolid, Spain, 21 May 1559. Execution in the presence of King Philip II of Spain. Heretics burnt at the stake included Protestant martyr Augustino de Cazalla. Auto-da-fe in Valladolid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Modern o Story, Florence, 1829.
RMWA4C6B–One of the earliest know representation of Christ's crucifixion on an ancient ivory casket. Next to him is a man hanging from a tree
RM2RG93F2–Statue of the Ancient Mariner at Watchet, Somerset, unveiled in September 2003 as a tribute to the 19th century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge who lived in the nearby village of Nether Stowey. T sight of Watchet harbour inspired him to write his long narrative poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: 'Ah ! well a-day ! / what evil looks / Had I from old and young ! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.'
RMCNTR46–ancient world, Roman Empire, first century AD, persecution of Christians, Emperor Nero watches the burning of Christians, wood engraving, 19th century, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2EA6CNN–Old Nineteenth century illustration. Punishment of a thief Morocco, North Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879
RMGFPTEA–“Her lips were red, her looks were free, her locks were yellow as gold…” Death and a deathly-pale woman play dice for the souls of the crew. From ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), illustration by Arthur C. Michael.
RMPGHEB1–Punishment of Dirce by brothers Amphion and Zethus depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of the Grand Duke (Casa del Granduca di Toscana) in Pompeii (1-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. Dirce is tied to the bull by Amphion, with the permission of his brother Zethus, to punish her for the mistreatment she inflicted on their mother Antiope. Antiope looks on with compassion and seems to want to stop the hand of their son.
RM2T5HY70–Pair of medieval wrist shackles or ancient iron handcuffs with chains at the Foregate Complex Museum or Zespół Przedbramia in Gdansk, Poland
RF2CW1WBJ–This early 1900s illustration shows an ancient Greek actor in the costume of a Fury. The Erinyes, or Furies in English, were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury. A victim seeking justice could call down the curse of the Erinys upon the criminal.
RM2G7B299–Diving chair a medieval punishment for defamatory women, Gifhorn, Mill Museum, Lower Saxony, Deutaschland
RMKKP6BJ–Roman consul Titus Manlius Torquatus condemning his son to death for leaving his post in battle. Titus Manlius Torquatus, Roman consul 347 BC. From Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World, published c.1882.
RMA64PW4–Christian martyrs facing hungry lions in the Colosseum in ancient Rome. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration
RF2KGM3K0–Ancient Art with a Modern Twist - Traditional Shadow Puppets from the Shaanxi Province placed on a contemporary background.
RM2GH6J0J–Ancient Age. 2nd century BC. Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Viriathus' justice. Thus perish the slaves of the Romans. Engraving. Las Glorias Nacionales. Volume I, Madrid-Barcelona edition, 1852.
RM2T50EA7–Punishment of Dirce Il 'Toro Farnese' Farnese Bull formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive Roman elaborated copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. Severian period (A.D. 222-235) National Archaeological Museum of Naples Italy. Roman, (2nd century)
RMHJ38B9–The Punishment of Ixion. c2nd AD Greek Marble Carving from Side, southern Turkey. In Greek Mythology Ixion, King of the Lapiths of Thessaly, was condemned to Eternal Punishment in Tartarus by being Chained to A Fiery Wheel, Execution Wheel or Breaking Wheel aka a Catherine Wheel
RMCNRKYJ–ancient world, Roman Empire, people, slaves, flogging of a slave, wood engraving after relief, Pompeii, 1st century AD, punishment, punished, flagellating, beating, Romans, antiquity, historic, historical, ancient world, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2GFTRA8–A 1914 illustration taken from an ancient Greek carving showing an ancient Greek mother punishing her child using a slipper.
RM2E267CC–Punishment of adulterers, Khiva, Uzbekistan, from Travels in central Asia 1863 by Armin Vambery. Old engraving El Mundo en la Mano 1878
RMGFPTEC–“The self-same moment I could pray: And from my neck so free…” the Mariner prays having lived a nightmare life in death for killing the albatross. From ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), illustration by Arthur C. Michael.
RM2H3A8D7–Statue of the satyr Marsyas tied to a tree and flayed alive after a music battle with Apollo. Roman copy from a Greek original of the 4th century BC, now in the Capitoline Museums. Marsyae statua vetus marmorea. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Cannetti from Copperplates of the most beautiful ancient statues of Rome, Calcografia di piu belle statue antiche a Roma, engraved by Cannetti all'Arco della Ciambella, published by Gaetano Quojani, Rome, 1779.
RMPGHEE1–Punishment of Dirce by brothers Amphion and Zethus depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of the Grand Duke (Casa del Granduca di Toscana) in Pompeii (1-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. Dirce is tied to the bull by Amphion, with the permission of his brother Zethus, to punish her for the mistreatment she inflicted on their mother Antiope. Antiope looks on with compassion and seems to want to stop the hand of their son.
RMF1M0AA–The Pillory - A medieval Custom - was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used for punishment by public humiliation.
RM2RTCAB9–The punishment of Prometheus for stealing fire from the Olympian gods and giving it to humans. He was bound to a rock and an eagle - the symbol of Zeus - would eat his liver each day and each day it would grow back. After aprint by Cornelis Cort.
RMA8WHW1–Alexander the Great punishing Bessus of Bactria for his opposition 328 BC. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration
RMP7CB1A–English military punishment of flogging with a cat o'nine tails, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.
RF2T5PYKH–People in colonial attire put some unfortunate individuals in the pillory. An extremely detailed ancient engraving published in 1892. Unknown author
RM2T50E9J–Punishment of Dirce Il 'Toro Farnese' Farnese Bull formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive Roman elaborated copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. Severian period (A.D. 222-235) National Archaeological Museum of Naples Italy. Roman, (2nd century)
RMHJ3883–The Punishment of Ixion. c2nd AD Greek Marble Carving from Side, southern Turkey. In Greek Mythology Ixion, King of the Lapiths of Thessaly, was condemned to Eternal Punishment in Tartarus by being Chained to A Fiery Wheel, Execution Wheel or Breaking Wheel aka a Catherine Wheel
RMCNTP1T–ancient world, Roman Empire, people, slaves, public flogging of a slave, after mural painting, Pompeii, 1st century AD, justice, beating, punishment, spectators, audience, Romans, slavery, antiquity, historic, historical, ancient world, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2J0094D–'The Hell'. Unknown master. Oil on oak panel, 1510-1520 (119 x 217,5 cm). From a convent abolished in 1834. National Museum of Ancient Art. Lisbon, Portugal.
RM2DEEBFY–Fire punishment, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879
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RM2HWPR3M–Roman general Marcus Furius Camillus overseeing the punishment of a school teacher at the siege of the Etruscan city of Falerii, 394 BC. Children beat the traitor with birch rods as the town burns. The teacher had surrendered the children of the city to the Romans. Trahison d'un maitre d'Ecole pendant le Siege de Veies, et sa puniton. Copperplate engraving by Martin Pöltzel after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavie
RMPGHECM–Phaedra depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of Jason (Casa di Giasone) in Pompeii (20-25 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. Phaedra, tormented by unrequited love for her step-son Hippolytus, hands to the nurse the letter that will make the accusations against him that will mean his death, a punishment inflicted on him by Aphrodite for not having given in to the temptation of love.
RMKWDJ9C–THE BURNING OF SODOM, by Camille Corot, 1843-57, French painting, oil on canvas. This was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1857. An angel leads Lot and his two daughters to safety, but left behind is Lots wife, who looked back at the sinful city in regret, and became a pillar of salt (BSLOC 2017 9 89)
RMK077K5–The reforms of Urukagina, some of which included removing corrupt officials from their posts, seen here are said officials receiving punishment. Uru-ka-gina, Uru-inim-gina, or Iri-ka-gina, c. 24th century BC. King of Lagash in Mesopotamia. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
RMP7DHPT–Chinese men in heavy wooden punishment and public humiliation collars or cangue being led by men with whips. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Luigi Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.
RF2G5XWWP–tormented Sinners walking down to the purgatory on an ancient mural in a danish church, Skibby, Denmark, June 28, 2021
RM2T50E9Y–Punishment of Dirce Il 'Toro Farnese' Farnese Bull formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive Roman elaborated copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. Severian period (A.D. 222-235) National Archaeological Museum of Naples Italy. Roman, (2nd century)
RMDB6BME–ancient world, Assyrian, a King pricking a prisoner the eyes of, relief, DurSharrukin (Chorsabad, Iraq), 7th century BC, wood engraving, 19th century, Dur Sarrukin, Assyrian empire, torture, punishment, justice, ring, tongue, antiquity, historic, historical, ancient world, people, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
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