Burning the scrollsdetails

Burning the scrolls

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The four men in this picture are engaged in burning a large scroll, a Roman decree banning Christianity. They are clean-shaven and short-haired, wear the Roman toga and have bare feet. One thrusts the scroll into the flames and the other adds a large bundle of sticks.

Note that the swastika on the right-most man’s sleeve long predates any modern connotation of that symbol: this book was published in 1887.