cartouche

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“If you inspect the birth-name cartouche closely, you see clear, underlying traces of a reed leaf,” he said in an email.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022

They unearthed the well-preserved city that had almost complete walls and rooms filled with tools of daily life along with rings, scarabs, coloured pottery vessels and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep’s cartouche.

From Reuters • Apr. 8, 2021

Included among the items were gold amulets, a relief with the cartouche of a Ptolemaic king, wooden tomb model figures, and two Roman period funerary stelae.

From Fox News • Jul. 7, 2020

One unusual artifact was a ceramic decorative piece believed to have adorned a facade, a cartouche.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2019

The end of the Ptolemy cartouche means “Ever-living, beloved of the god Ptah.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan