cartouche

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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

Lay a paper cartouche on top, pressing it down, and poke a few holes in the paper.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2016

Cleopatra has for its fifth letter a P, and in the Cleopatra cartouche in the fifth position is the same square.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan