Cartonnage

A fragment of cartonnage from a New Kingdom coffin on display at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

Cartonnage is a type of material composing Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period onward. It was made of layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaster. Some of the Fayum mummy portraits are also painted on panels made of cartonnage.

References

• Shaw, Ian; and Nicholson, Paul. The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. p. 61. The British Museum Press, 1995.
• Digital Egypt, fuller history

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