THE MEANING OF CARTOUCHE HISTORY
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In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche /kɑːrˈtuːʃ/ is an oval with a line at one end at right angles to the oval, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.
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cartouche is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic name plate. It's shaped like an oval with a horizontal bar at the base of the oval and a king's name written inside of the oval. If there was not enough space (for example, if the name was excessively long), the Egyptians could write the cartouche horizontally instead of vertically, and put the line on the side going up and down, instead of horizontally at the bottom of the oval.
The word cartouche is actually the French word for a gun cartridge or bullet. When Napoleon took his army on an expedition to Egypt, the soldiers remarked that the shape of the name plate looked like a cartouche, or gun cartridge, and the name stuck. The Egyptian name for the cartouche was shen, meaning 'to encircle.'