objectCartoucheObjects · Rituals · WordsA named oval name-ring of Egyptian royal writing as an object-sign. Not a serekh, not a shen-ring, and not a magic-ring reprint.Egyptian religionCartouche appears in Egyptian religion.Herodotus’s Egyptian logos describes royal name-rings among sacred Egyptian character kinds. A named cartouche oval in that traveler’s account, not hieroglyph as the writing class already filed and not a seal dump alone.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedCartouche is historically related to Clay.In Mollett's Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, Cartouche is named in the pottery and building lemmas beside Clay.from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology · J. W. MollettJ. W. Mollett, An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology (1883).