1) Ancient instrument of torture 2) Capital punishment
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Scaphism, also known as the boats, was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death that was described by the Persians` archenemies, the Greeks. The name comes from the Greek σκάφη, skáphe, meaning `anything scooped (or hollowed) out`. The intended victim was stripped naked and then firmly fastened within the......
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execution by deserting honey-covered person in the sun
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• (n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
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Scaph'ism noun [ Greek
ska`fh a trough.] An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
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