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

A cartouche carved on the ceiling bears the name of King Thutmose I of the early 18th dynasty.

From Washington Times • Dec. 9, 2017

The transliteration of a cartouche of Ptolemy from the Rosetta stone and one of Cleopatra from the Philae obelisk.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan