Sudarium of Oviedo

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The Sudarium of Oviedo, or Shroud of Oviedo, is a bloodstained piece of linen cloth in plain 1/1 weave with a Z-twist thread measuring c. 84 cm × 53 cm (33 by 21 inches) kept in the Cámara Santa of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain. The Sudarium (Latin for sweat cloth) is linked to a legend of a cloth wrapped around the head of Jesus Christ after he died as described in John 20:6–7. The small rectangular linen bears no image of a human body or face, and consists of reddish-brown stains. The cloth has been dated multiple times to around 700 AD by radiocarbon dating conducted through laboratories at the University of Arizona in 1990, University of Toronto in 1992, and again in 2007 at the National Museum of Archaeology. The results of which are inconsistent with a history purportedly extending back to c. 570 due to a possible reference to the Sudarium by the anonymous pilgrim of Piacenza. Historical and textile analysis indicate it was woven in the 8th century, with the first document...

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