Charles Ellicott Commentary Matthew 27:59

"And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth," — Matthew 27:59 (ASV)

A clean linen cloth — The word for “linen cloth,” sindôn, points, according to different derivations, to a Sidonian or an Indian fabric. It was probably of the nature of muslin rather than linen and seems to have been specially used by the Egyptians for folding around their mummies, but sometimes also for the sheet in which a man slept (Herodotus 2:82, 95). In the New Testament, it appears only in the account of our Lord’s burial and in the strange narrative of Mark 14:51.