The Shroud15/05/2009home|previous|next

It’s a linen cloak, woven in serge with a weft called fish thorn, 4.36x1.10 that shows juxtaposing in front and back from the top of the head, the shadow of a naked man 1.80 m long. It's a very superficial scorching of the threads.


In coincidence with the shadow, blood tracks allows a guess that the man was whipped, crowned with thorns, and perforated in feet and hands. More specialized studies lets us notice that the Man is of Semitic race, with blood AB type, that he received several blows, that fragments of beard were loosened, and that he died by asphyxia in a vertical position.

To whip him, two types of whips were used from opposite positions. Both leather straps ended in small plumb staples that ripped off his flesh as they pulled the straps.

The Shroud shows, besides, traces of humidity by a flood in edessa, and it’s perforated as it was folded during the chapel fire where it was kept in Turin in 1532.

Rollover & clic & double clic.

rollover

The Shroud was restored in 2002.

In 1898 Secondo Pía takes photos of the Shroud, and discover the negative view of this shadow produces a photographic positive.

Max Frei found on the Shroud pollen spores from native plants of Jerusalem, Turkey, France and Italy, corroborating its historical geographic itinerary.

As the photographs of the Shroud are analyzed through the NASA’s VP8 Visor, designed to explore Mars’s orography, Jackson, Jumper and Mortten discover that the shadow is tridimensional, and describes the distances between the radiation emitting Body and the Shroud, receptive surface of the radiation.

Taking the VP8 visor photographies as basis, father Francis Filas finds on the right lid region of Jesus the inscription of a lepton, the cheapest roman coin in Caesarea Felipa in times of Jesus.

Piero Ugolotti, Aldo Marastoni, André Marion and Anne Laure Couragey find inscription in Hebrew, Greek and Latin on the back of the Shroud, around the Face.

The carbon-14 dates back to between 1260 and 1390. But Sue Benford and Joseph Marino found that the fragment analyzed was taken from a patch, which was confirmed by Ray Rogers, who found cotton in a fragment from that region.
Alan and Mary Whanger find at the sides of the Man of the Shroud traces of several objects.