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This sign (called a cartouche since the late eighteenth
century) is an elongated version of the shen rope within which two of the king's names
(his birth name and his throne name) were written. |
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"He of the Sedge and the Bee" is a royal title
meaning the king of Upper (the sedge plant) and Lower (the bee) Egypt. |
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"Lord of the Two Lands," another royal title, is
represented by the neb glyph, meaning "lord," and by two lines,
representing the "Two Lands" (Egypt). |
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"Son [the duck] of Re [the solar disk]" is
another title of the king. |
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"Perfect, good, beautiful," pronounced nefer,
a stylized image of the heart and windpipe, can also mean good fortune and happiness. |
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"The perfect god" is the nefer glyph
with the word "god," which is the emblem of divinity, a cloth wound on a pole. |
