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Cannonmn Citizen

Joined: 30 Dec 2015 Posts: 1 Location: Dc
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:08 pm Post subject: Help with mysterious cartouche |
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Hello, new here, trying to find out whether the glyphs in this cartouche are meaningful or just decoration. It is engraved on a 24 in. Diameter copper tray with other cartouches and glyphs, but I thought I'd make a request that's probably easy for someone here. I don't think the tray is even an antique but I'd like to know what it says, if anything intelligible.
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neseret Vizier


Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 1033 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:11 am Post subject: |
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It's nonsense: not the name of a known ruler and (assuming the glyphs are as I see them) reads:/bAt-n-qA-n/. It takes real work to even to get to that, which says to me that it's simply decoration.
Also, not a proper cartouche (it tries to mix the shen ring of a cartouche with an ankh (anx)).
So, no meaning, and done improperly: I doubt the source is even Egyptian.
My  _________________ Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Oriental Institute
Oriental Studies
Doctoral Programme [Egyptology]
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