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The cloth definitely is consistent with the type used to wrap the corpses in Palestine at the time of Christ, although it was common to bandage the body differently, like the Egyptians used to do, and as it is reported in the Gospel of John about Lazarus of Betània episode¹¹ . When wrapped in a shroud, the body was lying on half of the burial cloth, with the feet at the end and the head to the middle of the Cloth (but sometimes placed in the inverted position); the other half then being drawn over the head to cover the body, which remained inside the cloth (as the picture above shows).