Wrapping up in bandages and final interventions

Wrapping up in bandages and final interventions

The mummy could have been covered with a net of rolls of blue faience and protected with gilded cartonnage (A processed and coloured blend of layers of mud,papyrus or linen used ot protect mummies.), and placed into a wooden or stone, monopartite or polipartite sarcophagus. This obviously depended on the price the commissioner of the funeral was able to pay. The hole caused by the removal of the organs was packed with resin, sawdust and linen.

The cosmetical treatment of the mummy involved also minor surgery of the mouth, which had to be cleaned so that the dead could pronounce magical spells in the world of the dead. Equally so, artificial eyes were supposed to allow the dead to see in the Duat.