Egyptian Cartouche

In ancient Egypt, kings, and sometimes others, encircled their name hieroglyphs with a design that we now call a cartouche. While we may find it rarely used to enclose the name of non-kings, for the most part, the cartouche's presence identifies the name it encloses as the king of Egypt. A cartouche is an oval ring that is a hieroglyph representation of a length of rope folded and tied at one end. It symbolized everything that the sun encircled and is thus an indication of the king's rule of the cosmos. Later, in the demotic script, the cartouche was reduced to a pair of parentheses and a vertical line.
The term, "cartouche" is a relatively modern one coined by the soldiers of Napoleon's expedition in Egypt, who saw in the sign the likeness of the cartridges, or "cartouche" used in their own guns. The cartouche, known in ancient Egypt as the shenu, is derived from the Egyptian verb, Sheni, which means to encircle. It is very similar to the shen sign, a more circular form, and in fact the earliest use of the cartouche in which the king's name was written were circular and identical with that sign. So in order to understand the cartouche we must know something of the shen sign.

The writing of the name of a pharaoh or a king powerful as he could be, was enclosed in an oval frame or band to signify his glorious title. The writing was in hieroglyphic symbols.

The writing of the cartouche or shenu commenced at the start of the third dynasty (2658-2185BC). Before the names of the kings and gods were written in rectangular frames.

Later, as the Egyptians introduced more religious beliefs they started to write the names of royalty in oval frames, which represented the elliptical course of the sun around the world and defined the limits of the kingdom that it shined upon. The oval band or frame was set on a square base.

A "cartouche" was found on Egyptian monuments and papyri. 'Cartouche' became so commonly used that it has remained the standard name for the shape around the name of an Egyptian pharaoh or queen.

In the NEW KINGDOM the cartouche was used as an amulet, evidently to prevent demons from devouring the name of the dead

'Cartouche' is actually a French word meaning 'gun cartridge'. When Napoleon's soldiers were in Egypt, they nicknamed this shape 'cartouche' because it reminded them of the shape of their gun cartridges, or bullets.

Writing your name in a GOLD or SILVER cartouche gives you the meaning of royalty and glory that the Egyptian Kings and Queens had.

Not also this but give your name and the name of whom you love the immortality and eternity by writing his or her name together with your name on each side of the cartouche in hieroglyphics.

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