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
Ptolemy begins with P; the first symbol in the cartouche is a square.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
