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An Israelite Assassin during the Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire. The Sicarii (Latin for "dagger-men") were an extremist splinter-group of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans, Herodians, and their partisans from the Levant.
The prayer shawl is called a tallit - normally it is only worn during Yom Kippur and morning prayers, but these Assassins were highly religious, and might have worn it a lot more than that - perhaps inspiring later Assassin hoods. The spear is actually a Hidden Blade itself - when retracted, it would appear to be a shepherd's staff or the like.
DISCLAIMER: This design is probably apocryphal - the biblical tallit was more akin to a mantle, or poncho, and only developed into the version seen here in 1000 CE.
The prayer shawl is called a tallit - normally it is only worn during Yom Kippur and morning prayers, but these Assassins were highly religious, and might have worn it a lot more than that - perhaps inspiring later Assassin hoods. The spear is actually a Hidden Blade itself - when retracted, it would appear to be a shepherd's staff or the like.
DISCLAIMER: This design is probably apocryphal - the biblical tallit was more akin to a mantle, or poncho, and only developed into the version seen here in 1000 CE.
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And rabbi Akiba who was responsible for the revolt was tortured to death, and then his raw flesh was dumped in a jumble on a table to be sold as food !
BUT legend says that before the market was opened, two mysterious men bore the mess away and journeyed across the desert. Tho it was night, the sunbeams lit them. They entered a cave and put the carcass in a bed and then after they left, the cave irised shut and nobody knows where it is.