S&V - Page 122
...Andre Marion believes much more in the existence of traces of writing around the face.

In 1994, at the request of Cielt, then engineer at the Optics Institute of Orsay (France), he digitizes some photographs of the shroud with a micro-densitometer. On the images obtained, he sees Greek and Latin characters which could compose the words « condemned to death », « Nazarene », « Jesus ».

These observations reported in two books intended for general public were followed by a scientific publication where the author is much more careful in his conclusions. His inscriptions thus do not seem much more credible than those of the coins...

VSD - Page 29
...traces of old, Greek and Latin writings, were discovered on the shroud fabric, in particular around the face. Photographs of this area were digitized in 1994 at the Institute of optics of Orsay, then processed by computer.

The results are astonishing. One thus could decipher a piece of the Latin sentence IN NECEM IBIS (« you will go to death, you are condemned to died »), archaic Greek word PEZw who means « to make, to achieve » with the meaning of « to celebrate a sacrifice », the expression WYSKIA which one can translate by « shade of face » or « hardly visible face », like « the Nazarene » (NAZAPHNOS in Greek or NAZARENUS in Latin), ADAm (« Adam »), HSOY which comes obviously from IHSOYC (« Jésus ») and finally two letters IC, beginning and end of IHSOYC, which often appear on the Byzantine icons.

According to the specialists palaeographers, the characters found, of epigraphic type, are rather Eastern that Western and rather point out ancient characters (former to V century) than medieval characters; in particular the form of S meets in 2nd century but becomes extremely rare with the Middle Ages.

Moreover, one does not see for what reason a medieval forger would have tried hard, to perfect his work, to trace inscriptions illegible before the end of the twentieth century: no copy, reproduction or description of the shroud indicate their presence indeed, which proves that they were then already erased.