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It is a linen cloth 4.41 meters long and 1.13 meters wide , woven in a herringbone pattern. A burial cloth of fine workmanship, not particularly common in the mortuary traditions of the Jews and other ancient peoples, the Shroud bears a double image (frontal and dorsal) of a human body with evident signs of torture. These are actually two imprints of a life-size man lying on one half of the linen, with the other half of the cloth folded over his head to his feet, so as to create a double silhouette, opposite head to head, one frontal and one dorsal .
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