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The subjects painted upon the cartonage were the four genii of Amenti, and various emblems belonging to deities connected with the dead.
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Iufaa's face was covered with a death mask made of gilt cartonage and his skull was filled with resin.
Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir 1998
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It was then enclosed in a cartonage fitting close to the mummied body, which was richly painted and covered in front with a network of beads and bugles arranged in a tasteful form, the face being laid over with a thick gold leaf, and the eyes made of enamel.
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On the cartonage and case, in a corresponding situation above, the same emblem was also placed, to indicate the protecting influence of the Deity.
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The three or four cases which successively covered the cartonage were ornamented in like manner with painting and gilding, and the whole was enclosed in a sarcophagus of wood or stone, profusely charged with painting or sculpture.
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In many instances the body or the cartonage was beautified in an expensive manner, and the outer cases were little ornamented; but some preferred the external show of rich cases and sarcophagi.
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Glass bugles and beads were much used by the Egyptians for necklaces, and for a sort of network, with which they covered the wrappers and cartonage of mummies.
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These cases, as well as the cartonage, varied in style and richness, according to the expense incurred by the friends of the deceased.
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Generally the scene is found beneath the feet of the dead, at the lower end of the cartonage, and the cow is represented as carrying off at a gallop the mummy who is lying on her back.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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Academicians, remarks in vol.ii. p. 182, that looking to the length of the cavity or interior of the sarcophagus in the King's Chamber, that it could not hold within it a cartonage or mummy case, enclosing a man of the ordinary height.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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