Here this scene, reconstructed on the basis of

the classical sources by the Utrechtian artist

Pol du Closeau, the Netherlands.

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Marcus Antonius wanted to show the people

how Caesar’s murderers had mauled him, and
so he had a wax figure of the dead made
showing him as he had fallen under the
daggers and as he had been seen from the
roofs of the houses where the people had
barricaded in fear when three servants carried
him home in his sedan with outstretched arms
hanging down laterally. However, because this
wax figure, if lying on the rostra, could not
have been seen, he affixed it on a tropaeum
which he had erected at the head of the bier,
where at first it was covered with the robe in
which he had been murdered. At a certain point
of his speech, when the herod read the Senate
resolutions which had declared his person
sacrosanct and by which the senators
commited themselves to personally serve as
his body guard, Antonius let the blood-stained
and rent toga flutter with a lance, and then
uncovered Caesar’s body of wax in order to
entirely show the dagger thrusts, especially the
mortal one in the side and the blood.With the
help of a mechanism he then let this macabre
tropaeum revolve so that all would see it, while
a mime wearing the mask of the deceased one
as if from the hereafter and in disbelieving
astonishment spoke: “Ah, did I save them that
they might murder me?”—which the people
like the choir in a tragedy repeated. It did not
fail to have its effect. The people got enraged
and chased the murderers. Even a friend of
Caesar’s, who had the misfortune of bearing
the same name as another who had sided with
the murderers, was torn to pieces so that no
part of the body could be found for the funeral.

The bier in form of the Venus-Genetrix-temple,

Caesar’s body lying inside; tropaeum with wax
figure, which is just being uncovered by
Antonius with the lance. Behind it on the right
of the Saturnus temple the Capitol.By the way,
let it be noted here that Capitol classically
means “place of a skull” and thus the word
Golgotha is a proper translation thereof.The
wax figure is fastened with two nails through
the hands, which is obvious since a wax figure
had a wooden core which was coated with wax.
For that reason it cannot sag, which it also
wasn’t supposed to, because it was supposed
to depict a stabbed one lying on the floor and it
was only erected so that all could see him as
he had lain. And naturally for the same reason
it did not need a suppedaneum, a footrest,
either.