The death mask of Tutankhamon was made by:
1. Place a wet panel of cloth over the living face of the Pharaoh.
2. Pour liquid plaster over the cloth, with holes for breathing (at the nose).
3. This is called "cartonnage."
4. When the plaster dries, remove molded cloth from face.
5. Work semi-liquid gold into or onto the plaster mold, and work on the image as the gold hardens.
6. Either keep or remove the Cartonnage plaster/cloth mold from the golden mask. Some Late Period masks contained the gold still attached to the plaster.
7. Fill in the remaining spaces of the gold mask with more gold, or add silver or copper to the gold to strengthen it (white gold has silver in it, and red gold has copper; pure gold is very soft as a metal, and will break when dropped; 24k).
The face of Tut on the mask = is his actual face, preserved forever.
M7, 2012.
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