There are four principal periods of use of cartonnage, each with distinct ingredients and effects. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/burialcustoms/cartonnage.html]
This mummy is enclosed in what is called a cartonnage, that is a case molded on the figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptology News] Reference
The material of the mummy-case is the usual "cartonnage," consisting of. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Learn the fine art of fashioning a cartonnage (linen and plaster) coffin. From Wordnik.com. [Priestess of Amun] Reference
A funeral mask of gilded cartonnage, she realized after a dry-mouthed moment. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnet of the Sphinx] Reference
Trustees of the British Museum Gilded cartonnage mummy mask first century B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Spooky Journey Into the Afterlife] Reference
No. The cartonnage has no inscription at all, and cartonnages are inner coffins. From Wordnik.com. [Unwrapping Brooklyn's Mummies] Reference
One of the mummies bore a cartonnage mask painted in gold, symbolizing eternity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Such cartonnage coffins are common; fragments of Greek manuscripts have been found in some. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
But there are no similarities between her actual face and the one painted on her cartonnage. From Wordnik.com. [Getting By On Her Looks] Reference
He was wrapped in linen with a mask of cartonnage, plaster-coated pasteboard, covered with gilt. From Wordnik.com. [Oasis of the Dead] Reference
This text, recovered from Egyptian mummy cartonnage, is the earliest manuscript of her work so far known. From Wordnik.com. [The Beat Goes On] Reference
The unrobbed tombs did contain coffins, some of wood, some molded out of cartonnage (a variety of papier-mache) and heavily varnished. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
Artists who painted mummy coffins did not sign their work, but the person who decorated Meresamun's cartonnage certainly left his (or her) mark. From Wordnik.com. [A Coffin Fit for a Priestess] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Coffin Fit for a Priestess] Reference
Although rifled in antiquity, the tomb still contained a cedar sarcophagus and the gilded anthropoid coffins, inside which the mummy of Maiherpa lay with a gilded cartonnage mask still in position. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 1: Maiherpra] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Unwrapping Brooklyn's Mummies] Reference
Cast in a separate mold, the plaster face was then incorporated into a helmet-like covering made of thinner plaster or cartonnage (plaster on linen) that was placed over the rest of the head, shoulders and upper chest. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2006 - Adventures Underground] Reference
Only his cartonnage was deemed worthy of display and study. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"How do you suggest that John Bellingham's body came to be inside that cartonnage?". From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Even his plant-fiber necklace survived in storage and was draped around his cartonnage once again. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
A mummy had reposed in the overturned cartonnage and the brittle bindings had crumbled into powder. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
Ancient beauty: A wooden coffin containing a linen-wrapped mummy covered in cartonnage found by the Egyptian archaeological mission. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
A dusty cloth dabbed over the bitumen when it was dry disguised its newness, and the cartonnage with its tenant was ready for delivery. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Ancient beauty: A wooden coffin containing a linen-wrapped mummy covered in cartonnage was found by the Egyptian archaeological mission. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
A blow on the side of the head sent the detective crashing against a cartonnage, and together the quick and the dead rolled to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
It was a cartonnage of rather flexible material and had an opening behind, secured with a lacing so that it could be opened without injury. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Nothing had been touched in this palace of death since the day when the mummy in its cartonnage and its two coffins had been placed upon its basalt couch. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
For that is the age of the mummy which the caprice of fate drew from its cartonnage in the midst of the Universal Exposition, amid all the machinery of our modern civilisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
The tomb furniture is excellent of its kind and the cartonnage case of the mummy is well made and rather finely decorated. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
"It was a difficult business getting him into the case without assistance, and I cracked the cartonnage badly in several places before he was safely enclosed. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
So that, you see, in a cartonnage, the body was sealed up like a nut in its shell, unlike the more ancient forms in which the mummy was merely rolled up and enclosed in a wooden coffin. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Some mummies of that period had cartonnage masks. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
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