Mehmed Ali punished market cheaters with ironic corporal penalties

Evidence

A counterfeiter of coins was hanged from Bāb Zuweila, one of the gates of medieval Cairo, with a coin hanging from his nose. The market inspector slit the noses of some butchers and hanged pieces of meat from them as a punishment for selling meat at a price higher than those fixed by the government. The kunāfa merchants cheating in weight and prices were punished by being forced to sit on their hot pans while they were still on fire. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 677

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• CANDY: The ironic punishments—metal from a nose, meat from butchers’ noses, sitting on hot pans—are vivid, retellable anecdotes.
• ADDENDUM: Concrete instances of sacrificial-style proportional public violence that support the reader’s sacrifice article.