Cartouche (hieroglyph)

Cartouche in hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian Cartouche hieroglyph-(as hieroglyph only) is used to represent the Egyptian language word for 'name'. It is Gardiner sign listed no. V10, of the subgroup for rope, fibre, baskets, bags, etc.

Besides the cartouche hieroglyph use for the word 'name', the cartouche in half-section, Gardiner no. V11, , has a separate meaning in the Egyptian language as a determinative for actions and nouns dealing with items: "to divide", "to exclude".^[1]

The cartouche hieroglyph, , is used as a determinative for Egyptian language šn-(sh)n, for "circuit", or "ring"-(like the shen ring or the cartouche). Later it came to be used for rn, the word 'name'.^[2] The word can also be spelled as "r" with "n", the mouth over the horizontal n,

Rosetta Stone usage

or
"name-his" (two spellings) in hieroglyphs

The cartouche hieroglyph is used seven times in the Rosetta Stone, with the viper in the phrase: ren-f, "name-his", (or 'name-its').

Gallery of cartouche as hieroglyph

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  Incised medium bas relief hieroglyphs

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  Temple of Kom Ombo

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  Temple of Edfu
  Cartouche upon gold (hieroglyph)-(as central iconography theme)

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  Use of cartouche hieroglyph, middle column above swallow (hieroglyph)
  (Stela of Ramses I and Ramses IX)

See also

• Cartouche
• Gardiner's Sign List#V. Rope, Fibre, Baskets, Bags, etc.

References

1. Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Cartouche, p. 195.
2. Betrò, 1995, p. 195.

• Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)