Allen, N.P.L. (Nicholas P.L.)2010-12-092010-12-092010-112001Allen, NPL 2001, 'Dating the manufacture of the Shroud of Turin: an exercise in basic iconography.' South African Journal of Art History, vol. 16, pp. 96-109.0258-3542http://hdl.handle.net/2263/15407Article digitised using: Suprascan 1000 RGB scanner, scanned at 400 dpi; 24-bit colour; 100% Image derivating - Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Image levels, crop, deskew Abbyy Fine Reader No.9 - Image manipulation + OCR Adobe Acrobat 9 (PDF)This paper refutes the recent spate of attempts to invalidate the 1988 carbon dating results which indicated with a 95% certainty, that the Shroud of Lirey-Chambery-Turin was manufactured from flax plants that grew sometime between 1260 and 1390. An attempt will be made to show how the iconography employed in the image of a tortured and crucified man as found on the Shroud of Turin corroborate the carbon dating results quite precisely, thereby confirming that this artefact is mediaeval and not a product of the first century CE.14 pagesPdfenArt Historical Work Group of South AfricaReligion -- FaithReligion and scienceReligion -- Antiquities & ArchaeologyReligion -- Christianity -- HistoryShroud of TurinCarbon datingArt -- HistoryHoly ShroudRadiocarbon datingRelicsArticle