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The iron cage was usually hung outside the city gates. In it was placed a prisoner whose punishment was death for some crime they had committed. They were locked in the cage to die of thirst and hunger. Even when dead they were usually left for many weeks so that the birds and other animals who had access to the body could dispose of its remains.

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