On the skin of the chest and on the back there are more than a hundred excoriated ecchymosis, consisting of pairs of round shapes, less than an inch large, which are visible also on the inferior limbs. Those wounds seem to have been inflicted with a scourge, a roman instrument of torture, consisting of a wooden handle from which many strings led off. Small pairs of dumb bell shaped pieces of lead used to be attached to the strings. In some areas the tracks left by the strings are also visible. At the plan of the scapular region and the right over scapular region there are quadrangular ecchymosis ascribable to a heavy and though object, which might have been the "patibulum", the horizontal beam of the cross that, sometimes, the convicted had to carry to the place of execution.

Upon examining the chest, we note a large blood stain over the right pectoral area. The blood flow come from an ovoid wound on the 5^th right infracostal space. This wound's blood flow carries all the characteristics of a postmortem type of blood. In fact, it flows onto the back, up to the kidney area, certainly for the emptying of the chest cavity when the body was laid in horizontal position. The blood is surrounded by a watery halo studded with red stains, as the blood that issues from a dead body looks, when the serous part is already isolated from blood particles.