Comments on: Barbarian decapitation headstone on display http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/617 History fetish? What history fetish? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:42:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/617#comment-19496 livius drusus Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:18:08 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=617#comment-19496 If battlefield beheadings were indeed common at the time, I would think there must have been something in particular about the behaving depicted on the gravestone in order for it to get such a starring role. I don't suppose we'll even know, but I'm terribly curious about it nonetheless. On another note, it is a genuine thrill to have the expert cited in an article comment to clarify a point. The kinds of stories I like to blog about tend to be sketchy on the details. :thanks: If battlefield beheadings were indeed common at the time, I would think there must have been something in particular about the behaving depicted on the gravestone in order for it to get such a starring role. I don’t suppose we’ll even know, but I’m terribly curious about it nonetheless.

On another note, it is a genuine thrill to have the expert cited in an article comment to clarify a point. The kinds of stories I like to blog about tend to be sketchy on the details. :thanks:

]]> By: stephen bull http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/617#comment-19494 stephen bull Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:22 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=617#comment-19494 :skull: Beheading may have been fairly common, but memorialising this act in stone certainly was rare. The only other obvious example in the UK appears on a tablet from the Antonine wall. :skull: Beheading may have been fairly common, but memorialising this act in stone certainly was rare. The only other obvious example in the UK appears on a tablet from the Antonine wall.

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