Re: Stauros/Crux

• To: B-GREEK@virginia.edu
• Subject: Re: Stauros/Crux
• From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@columbia.edu>
• Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 10:36:28 -0400 (EDT)
• In-Reply-To: <8495@elidor.demon.co.uk>

On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, John Richards wrote:

> The pcture uuencoded below is a detail of a bas-relief in the palace of
> Tilgath Pileser III of Assyria (c. 730BC) showing the seige of a city.
> The part shown here portays three figures impaled on stakes, (together
> with archers and a battering ram). It shows graphically the ancient usage
> of "Stauros" as literally a stake for execution. But note the date.

I was not aware that Tiglath Pileser III used a "stauros" at all, nor
indeed that he spoke Greek.  What is the connection between this
depiction and the discussion of the usage of a word over 700 years
later?

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