[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Uh, no. When people back then plucked a beard to humiliate someone, they pulled it out. They didn't just give the guy a French Fork.

Methinks the image on the shroud of Turin was created by somebody using their own medieval contemporary ideas of what Jesus looked like - drawn, most likely, from the "much later paintings" for which you have provided us an example.

[dangus]

>> Uh, no. When people back then plucked a beard to humiliate someone, they pulled it out. They didn’t just give the guy a French Fork. <<

Now you’re just being silly. You really think the soldiers stood there and pulled out the entire beard? They were showing contempt, not grooming him.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Methinks the image on the shroud of Turin was created by somebody using their own medieval contemporary ideas of what Jesus looked like - drawn, most likely, from the "much later paintings" for which you have provided us an example.

What kind of advanced medieval technology did they use to produce the image? There's certainly no paint evident.