This mummy is enclosed in what is called a cartonnage, that is a case molded on the figure. ❋ Unknown (1902)
This cartonnage is impressed all over the arms, shoulders and head-dress, with a reticulated sexagonal pattern, which gives the surface the appearance of being honey-combed. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Dr. Jesse Chusid said that while the mummy's body wrap of linen covered in plaster, called cartonnage, bore the shape of a woman, the body within had the anatomy of a man. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The material of the mummy-case is the usual "cartonnage," consisting of ❋ Unknown (1891)
He said that when the coffin is opened this week, archaeologists will likely find a mummy and a cartonnage mask molded to her face and made from layers of linen and plaster. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Trustees of the British Museum Gilded cartonnage mummy mask first century B.C.. ❋ Paul Levy (2010)
No. The cartonnage has no inscription at all, and cartonnages are inner coffins. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Her mummified remains, sealed 2,800 years ago in a skintight coffin of cartonnage (layers of linen and plaster), were examined by researchers at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute in September 2008 using the latest in CT scanning technology, a "256-slice" machine that produced startlingly vivid images. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But there are no similarities between her actual face and the one painted on her cartonnage. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Meresamun's skintight coffin, or cartonnage, was made by placing layers of linen and plaster over a temporary mummy-shaped core of mud and straw. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Artists who painted mummy coffins did not sign their work, but the person who decorated Meresamun's cartonnage certainly left his (or her) mark. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The outside of the cartonnage was then lavishly painted in bold, bright colors with Meresamun's idealized likeness and images to ensure her successful journey to the afterlife, including flowers, sun disks, and a falcon. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Learn the fine art of fashioning a cartonnage (linen and plaster) coffin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When I got back from the hospital I looked at a picture of the museum's mummy cartonnage of Nespanetjerenpere and put my hand in front of the beard and said -- oh you know it's pretty much the same face. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They're also going to test a model of a second false Egyptian toe that has been on display in the British Museum since 1881, but they don't think that one was functional: made of cartonnage, a kind of papier mache of linen, glue and plaster, it does not bend (unlike the Cairo artifact), and so may have been purely cosmetic. ❋ Ewillett (2007)
One of the mummies bore a cartonnage mask painted in gold, symbolizing eternity. ❋ Jan (2008)
Inside two of the coffins, mummies were covered at the head and feet with brightly colored cartonnage—a papier-mâché-like material often plastered over mummified bodies and decorated. ❋ Jan (2008)
A funeral mask of gilded cartonnage, she realized after a dry-mouthed moment. ❋ Diana Killian (2006)
It was found in the cartonnage of an Egyptian mummy, the flexible layer of fibre or papyrus which was moulded while wet into a plaster-like surface around the irregular parts of a mummified wrapped body, so that motifs could be painted on. ❋ Zoe Brain (2005)
