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• The blades of executioner's swords were often decorated with symbolic designs, showing instruments of execution or torture, or the Crucifixion of Christ, combined with moralistic inscriptions.
• The Alexamenos graffito, which was once thought to be the earliest surviving pictorial representation of a crucifixion and has been interpreted as mockery of a Christian, shows a cross as an instrument of execution.
• Jehovah's Witnesses'publications have argued that the use of the Greek word " stau穜os2 " in the Gospel accounts when referring to the instrument of execution on which Jesus died refers to an upright pole without a crossbeam.
• Both combatants took great relish describing the terrible punishments that would be meted out upon their opponent and the pictures evoked imply the proximity of instruments of execution in the medieval landscape as bleak as that in many images of the time in art.