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The paper aims to analyze some interesting interpretations about the matter of the shape, the num... more The paper aims to analyze some interesting interpretations about the matter of the shape, the number and the position of Jesus’ burial cloths as they were found by Peter and John in the empty tomb on Easter morning, in the light of some witnesses offered by Liturgy and Iconography.
The debate concerning the instrument that was used to hit the Man of the Shroud’s body during the... more The debate concerning the instrument that was used to hit the Man of the Shroud’s body during the flagellation is now strongest than ever. Several hypotheses are following one other: some scholars, after a careful analysis of the bloodstains on the Turin Shroud, could rebuild, with a good grade of certainty, the shape of this terrible torture tool. Other scholars hint at an example of flagrum that would have been found in the Roman town of Ercolano (Haerculanum), or to another one that would be preserved at the Diocletian Thermal Bath Museum, but those statements often lack of precise references.
A research of the effective historical evidences of this tool (including a survey through archaeological, linguistic, and artistic witnesses), conducted with the help of some of the main Cultural Institution of Lazio and Campania, seems to allow casting new light on this matter.
From the analysis of those data, it seems possible to conclude that the flagrum in the Roman era (and, to be more precise, in the 1st century) existed indeed, and it was a terrible torture tool.
The research aim is to open some new perspectives for the studies of a problem that does not involve only the Shroud, but several cultural disciplines like History, Archaeology, Linguistics and Iconography.
The paper aims to analyze some interesting interpretations about the matter of the shape, the num... more The paper aims to analyze some interesting interpretations about the matter of the shape, the number and the position of Jesus’ burial cloths as they were found by Peter and John in the empty tomb on Easter morning, in the light of some witnesses offered by Liturgy and Iconography.
The debate concerning the instrument that was used to hit the Man of the Shroud’s body during the... more The debate concerning the instrument that was used to hit the Man of the Shroud’s body during the flagellation is now strongest than ever. Several hypotheses are following one other: some scholars, after a careful analysis of the bloodstains on the Turin Shroud, could rebuild, with a good grade of certainty, the shape of this terrible torture tool. Other scholars hint at an example of flagrum that would have been found in the Roman town of Ercolano (Haerculanum), or to another one that would be preserved at the Diocletian Thermal Bath Museum, but those statements often lack of precise references.
A research of the effective historical evidences of this tool (including a survey through archaeological, linguistic, and artistic witnesses), conducted with the help of some of the main Cultural Institution of Lazio and Campania, seems to allow casting new light on this matter.
From the analysis of those data, it seems possible to conclude that the flagrum in the Roman era (and, to be more precise, in the 1st century) existed indeed, and it was a terrible torture tool.
The research aim is to open some new perspectives for the studies of a problem that does not involve only the Shroud, but several cultural disciplines like History, Archaeology, Linguistics and Iconography.