Cartonnage painted funerary mask from Abydos, late Graeco-Roman period, c.664 BC. Head and shoulders with a wig and lappets. The image of the face doesn't necessarily represent the face of the owner.

From c.2000 BC funerary masks were made from wood and from c.1500 BC inner mummiform coffins or mummy cases were manufactured of cartonnage.  Cartonnage is made form soaked layers of linen, and sometimes papyrus, which is moulded into shape.  It is covered with plaster and painted.  During the Greek period mummies often had masks and decorated pieces of cartonnage, which were put onto the wrappings of the body, held in place or ornate bandaging.