[Swordmaker]

Here is a photo of the location and angle that Dr. Zugibe proposes:

There is another picture of thumb side of a cadaver's hand with a very large needle inserted through this space and it exits exactly where the wound on the Shroud shows it did. I have not posted it because it is very graphic and is not suitable for a family site.

The entire peer reviewed paper is available here e-Forensicmedicine.net

[Happy2BMe]

Fascinating - but I was always led to believe the nails were driven into the area in the center of the wrist, so as to keep them from tearing through the flesh under the weight of the body.

[Uncle Jaque]

In a weird, vivid dream I had some years ago, the scars were about an inch proximal to the position indicated in the photo you posted.

They were hidden under the sleeve until He supinated the hands and extended them about 30 degrees from neutral, as the arms raised slightly towards the doubting Disciple.

Then the cuffs of the sleeves drew back a little and revealed them.

The nails must have been square, as the one in your picture, as the depressed central penetration was about 8mm square, with torn lacerations radiating from each corner for about another 6 to 8m into contused tissue.

Shortly after observing this phenomenon and trying to rationalize as to just how an Actor or impersonator could, or why they would mutilate themselves like this in order to perpetuate what he had thought, of late, to have been a grand deception -

His eyes were drawn from the mutilated yet gently extended wrists almost involuntarily upwards;

Hardly pausing to observe the moist, gaping, almost 2" long wound just under the costal arch on the left side of the thorax;

Untill in an anguished moment which seemed to take a lifetime, his eyes met His eyes.

Needless to say, the sceptic's vision was suddenly and significantly compromised as he slipped off of his seat and fell

...Shuddering; weeping;
at the feet;

which were also terribly mutilated.

He never touched any of the hidious, still open wounds before him...

Despite the invitation presented him to do so;

He didn't have to.

"Ho Kurios Mau Kai;
- Ho Theos Mau!"