Egyptian cartouche

Download this stock image: Egypt, Cairo, downtown, Egyptian museum, a cartouche - C1N1XK from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Cartouche with "Carmen" in Hieroglyphics (a modern day approximation)

Pectoral decorations are large necklaces which are worn over the chest. They contain a cartouche which frames the hieroglyphs that make up the name of a God or Royal person.

Chest of Tutankhamun In the shape of a cartouche, this gilded wood chest from King Tutankhamun's tomb is inlaid with ivory, ebony, and various colored pastes. A cartouche is an oval figure enclosing a sovereign's name.

Detail of a carving depicts the royal titulary of King Ramesses II (Usermaatre–setepenre, "The justice of Re is powerful – chosen of Re"), Abu Simbel Temple, Lower Nubia.

The scarab is the most venerated, the most common and the most familiar of the Egyptian symbols. Its symbolism is twofold: with its folded wings, it represents the disciple, life that has not yet come into existence, that starts its journey trying slowly to unfold its wings until it can flap them quickly. Then, this […]