I think it is meant to be like a Sarcophagus. Who else would be seen in it?

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Thanks John,

I guessed that they were hieroglyphics, I just couldn't remember the spelling at the moment. I didn't have a clue what it meant though, is a cartouche like the signet mark of royalty? It's still weird!

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Hi Ed:

Well, it has been almost 35 years since my college anthro class gave us a quick intro to hieroglyphs, but we had to do a glyph greeting card as an assignment, so some of it stuck. The Cartouche was the underlined rounded off rectangle surrounding symbols to designate a name, usually for royalty. This site
http://touregypt.net/ename/
gives you a tool to see your name, while this one gives the approximate alphabet:
http://members.aol.com/egyptnew/hiero.html
As an example, I scanned the card I gave my wife (She has never thrown anything away!).




It translates reading down from the top left, near as I can remember, as:
Long life and prosperity on the occasion of the 25th birthday to Leise (cartouche, with female symbol for feminine name, Lion for L sound, 2 feathers for hard I, horizontal line with 2 small circles for ES, 1 feather for UH, pronounced as 'Liza') ;
Next column, top right
Drinker of wine, seeker of gold (we used to pan gold in N Calif during the summer), and principle wife (caught grief on that one, I did!) of the house Elliott.

Symbols changed over 3000 years of use to become more stylized, less time consuming I suppose. Now the world knows everyting I do (probably 1/2 wrong) about the Cartouche! Open to corrections at any time.

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Very cool stuff, man!

Mike

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I saw the heiroglyphics..........I think they spell SPHINCTER!

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