单词 | cartonnage |
释义 | cartonnagen. Archaeology. An Egyptian mummy-case made of layers of linen or papyrus tightly pressed and glued together and fitting closely to the embalmed body; also, the material thus used. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > mummy-case mummy case1801 cartonnage1841 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > mummy-case > material of cartonnage1841 1834 T. J. Pettigrew Egypt. Mummies 116 The case I am describing is called by the French the ‘Cartonage’, from the resemblance of its composition to pasteboard.] 1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians II. 477 The innermost covering of the body..was the cartonage. This was a pasteboard case fitting exactly to its shape. 1881 G. Rawlinson Hist. Anc. Egypt I. 512 The swathed body was covered by a ‘cartonnage’, consisting of twenty or forty layers of linen tightly pressed and glued together, so as to form a sort of pasteboard envelope, which then received a thin coating of stucco, and was painted in bright colours with hieroglyphics and figures of deities. 1891 A. B. Edwards Pharaohs, Fellahs & Explorers 156 The material of the mummy-case is the usual ‘cartonnage’... This cartonnage is impressed all over the arms, shoulders and head-dress, with a..pattern. 1908 Athenæum 21 Mar. 360/3 The cartonnage mask which decorated the inner coffin. 1957 G. Clark Archaeol. & Society (ed. 3) iii. 78 A number of papyri..were recovered from the cartonnage of a mummy excavated by Flinders Petrie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1841 |
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