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Example sentences for "cartouches"

Lexicographically close words:
cartoonist; cartoonists; cartoons; cartouch; cartouche; cartridge; cartridges; carts; cartularies; cartwheel
  1. The cartouches bearing the king's name appear to have been purposely erased, though not so completely as to render the name illegible.

  2. The two monoliths are almost identical in size and workmanship, and are inscribed with the same cartouches of Rameses the Great.

  3. The rest of the column gave space for painted, or rather coilanaglyphic, representations of devotional acts, for the cartouches of the kings and for hieroglyphic inscriptions (Fig.

  4. Pectorals of pierced gold-work, inlaid with flakes of vitreous paste or precious stones, bear the cartouches of Usirtasen III.

  5. Examples of stone toilet or sacrificial bottles are not unfrequent in our museums: I may mention those in the Louvre which bear the cartouches of Dadkerî Assi (No.

  6. These supported a pyramidal group of four handsome cartouches with the cross and harp surrounded by an acorn, instead of the orb and cross.

  7. Kohl pots were fashioned in the form of the lotus, cartouches sprang from it, wine flowed from cups shaped like it.

  8. Somehow, in the handling of me, my store of cartouches had disappeared from my pockets.

  9. So with pistols in belt, and a supply of cartouches and some little food in our pockets, Ringan and I were enfolded in the silence of the woods.

  10. By this time, through study of the cartouches of other inscriptions, Champollion had made out almost the complete alphabet, and the "riddle of the Sphinx" was practically solved.

  11. Cannon cartouches should be well arranged in the ammunition chests, and well stowed with tow, that they may be carried without danger of injury from the road.

  12. She was called Tahoser, as we learn from the cartouches engraved upon older inscriptions hammered away.

  13. On cartouches and bands in the shape of stelæ were inscribed the titles of the Pharaoh and inscriptions in his honour.

  14. On the walls the symbolical globe spread its mighty wings and the royal cartouches showed around.

  15. The name of Menephtah was also noticed, and the architraves above the columns were seen to be cut with cartouches of Usirtasen II.

  16. By this time, through study of the cartouches of other inscriptions, he had made out almost the complete alphabet, and the "Riddle of the Sphinx" was practically solved.

  17. One has two cartouches placed on the symbol of gold, and each surmounted by a tall plume; they probably contained the praenomen and name of a king, but not the slightest trace remains of the hieroglyphs.

  18. Mr. Birch has since pointed out to me three interesting cartouches copied by Dr.

  19. The ceilings were painted blue, and sprinkled with five-pointed stars painted yellow, occasionally interspersed with the cartouches of the royal founder.

  20. The finest specimen that I have seen, namely, one in the Gizeh Museum, is inscribed in black ink with the cartouches of Rameses III.

  21. Pectorals of gold cloisonné work inlaid with vitreous paste or precious stones, and which bear the cartouches of Amenemhat II.

  22. This frieze might be composed of uraei, or of bunches of lotus; or of royal cartouches (fig.

  23. Two gold plates, very lightly engraved with the cartouches of Ahmes I.

  24. On the right, scarabaei with extended wings alternate with the cartouches of King Pinotem II.

  25. In the more richly decorated buildings, such as the Ramesseum, we sometimes find cartouches introduced between the vertical grooves of the cornice (Fig.

  26. In later years they were appropriated, in the fashion well known in Egypt, by the Pharaohs of the Second Theban Empire, who substituted their cartouches for those of the original owners.

  27. The main stripe occasionally has cartouches and star medallions, but in most instances has the turtle pattern, though its treatment differs from the usual form seen in Feraghans.

  28. Again, the border may consist of a series of cartouches that have been copied from much older rugs and contain verses of the Koran or of Persian poets.

  29. Indeed, it would even appear that he was associated with his father on the throne, since the cartouches of Meneptah and Seti II.

  30. The faces of the prisoners who surmount the cartouches are worthy of attention.

  31. Above the figure of the Pharaoh are the cartouches of Ramses II.

  32. The lower portion of it is modern, but the upper half bears the cartouches of Ramses II.

  33. These cartouches would also sometimes contain the names of gods, goddesses, queens, princes, and princesses, when the phrases introducing them were changed accordingly.

  34. It is a poor Roman copy of the Piazza del Popolo Obelisk, and has three columns of hieroglyphs on it, together with the cartouches of Seti I.

  35. The cartouches may be written in vertical or horizontal lines; thus [glyphs] or [glyphs] This is the usual form though variants are not of infrequent occurrence.

  36. It has one column of inscriptions on each face and the cartouches of these sovereigns.

  37. They seem to have started at the first of the lower cartouches and to have extended to the two {72}horizontal lines at the bottom of the obelisk.

  38. Their quality is enhanced by the beautiful color that has been applied to them, to the garlanded panels between them, to the cartouches over the archways and, indeed, to all the decorations on the walls and columns of this court.

  39. Large flower-decked jars stand in niches; the cartouches bear the flower motif.

  40. The royal cartouches of their kings is in an oval taken from the form of its under side.

  41. These cartouches are those of kings of orthodox Egyptian descent, we do not find the names of the Greek Ptolemies upon them, the Roman Emperors, as conquerors, sometimes used them but that does not prove their abstract right to do so.

  42. They very well know that cartouches add much value to the antiquities, and they are never in want of copies of them either from the great monuments or the original scarabs.

  43. Historical, containing royal cartouches and names of men, and figures relating to civil customs.

  44. It is shaped like a turtle and is covered with a most elaborate and curious ornament and with tables of hieroglyphics and cartouches of picture writing.

  45. An examination of the names contained in the cartouches makes it clear that they have been derived from the memoranda made by the scribes who accompanied the army of the Pharaoh in its campaigns.

  46. Very graceful is the adjustment of the cartouches into which the stone mullions divide the entire surface, and also the way in which they tend to become pointed in the upper part of the embrasure.

  47. In France the descendants of Jesse almost always appear as blossoms on the vine, but their earlier English prototypes usually stand in small cartouches formed by convolutions of the vine.

  48. Choffard executed many cartouches for atlases by Janvier.

  49. A title-page and 73 maps; six of these have cartouches signed by Choffard.

  50. Eight vignettes by Choffard and Eisen, engraved by Le Mire, several maps with cartouches by Choffard, a frontispiece and a vignette on the dedication-page by Eisen and 18 portraits engraved by Flipart.

  51. When these cartouches were compared with the cartouche on the Rosetta Stone it was found that one of them contained hieroglyphic characters that were almost identical with those which filled the cartouche on the Rosetta Stone.

  52. Upon the breast are the familiar cartouches of Rameses II.

  53. On the lid, however, were recognized the well-known cartouches of this illustrious monarch.


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