Cartonnage is a type of material composing Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period onward. It was made of linen or papyrus covered with plaster. The First Intermediate Period is the name conventionally given by Egyptologists to that period in Ancient Egyptian history between the end of the Old Kingdom and the advent of the Middle Kingdom. ...

References

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