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Scarab shaped amulet containing the image and cartouche of Amenhotep III, promising its owner in this world 'life' (represented by an ankh). These beetle amulets were used in Ancient Egypt for rituals or administrative purposes (14th century...

This is a detail of a large limestone relief (showing a boat trip) that came from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Egypt. The throne name (prenomen) cartouche of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III (regined 1479–1425 BCE...

This limestone slab was found beneath the sand of the Ptolemaic temple at Kopyos (Qift). At the left side, the figure of the king Pepi II looks to the right. Before him, the rope-border cartouche containing the birth-name and throne-name...

This is a detail of a large limestone fragment which came from the pyramid complex of the Egyptian pharaoh Sneferu (r. 2613 to 2589 BCE) of the 4th Dynasty of Egypt. This is one of the very few and important legal texts from the Old Kingdom...

The Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE) makes sacrifices to the god Aten. Part of the cartouche of Aten appears on the right upper corner. Part of a temple relief. Painted limestone. From Amarna, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty...

This calcite-alabaster almost life-size statue depicts a male baboon squatting on a base. The front part of the base was inscribed with hieroglyphic signs but they no longer discernible. However, a partially surviving Serekh sign mentions...

A pharaoh was known primarily by his throne name. This was traditionally a statement about his divine father, the sun-god Ra, so all cartouches with throne names display a sun-god at the top. A king's birth name was the only name he had already...

This alabaster jar is inscribed with Elamite, Old Persian, and Neo-Babylonian cuneiforms. A cartouche of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I also appears. From Nimrud, in modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Regin of Xerxes I, 486–465 BCE. On display...

This is a detail of a large limestone relief (showing a boat trip) that came from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Egypt. The throne name (prenomen) cartouche of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose II (regined 1493–1479 BCE...

This limestone and plaster piece depicts the female pharaoh Maatkare Hatshepsut as a sphinx. She has the body and mane of a lion, with the head of a human. Carved between the paws of the statue is a cartouche enclosing the pharaoh's throne...