The Edessa cloth with facial image is not mentioned in Constantinople again until 1150 by an English pilgrim to Constantinople. He saw what he describes as a gold container, capsula aurea, in which is the mantile which, applied to the Lords face, retained the image of his face."3 1 He also mentions the "sudarium which was over his head." It is yet another reference to a funerary cloth of Jesus in Constantinople, though it does not seem to be a body shroud.3 2 This and the following three documents continue the confusion that thwarts ones efforts to identify the precise objects in the imperial relic collection.
