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Rear of a cartonnage Anubis mask, Ptolemaic era
This mummy of an unknown girl has a cartonnage composed of layers of linen and plaster.[1] The Walters Art Museum.

Cartonnage or cartonage is a type of material used in ancient Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period to the Roman era. 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Mummy and Painted Cartonnage of an Unknown Woman". The Walters Art Museum.
  2. ^ New clues illuminate mysteries of ancient Egyptian portraits - Same artist painted several lifelike paintings buried with mummies by BRUCE BOWER, published by "Society for Science & the Public" on February 14, 2016

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