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A rope drawn round a royal name.
Also known as: Royal name ring
The Egyptian oval enclosing a royal name, drawn as a loop of rope with a tie at one end.
Encloses a royal name, marking the signs within it as the name of a king or queen.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A loop of rope with the ends tied, understood as encircling everything the sun surrounds and therefore everything the king rules — the frame is a claim, not a bracket.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Made the decipherment possible: the enclosure identified where a known royal name had to be, which gave Champollion a set of signs whose sounds could be guessed.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
An elongated oval outline with a straight bar closing one end, enclosing the hieroglyphs of the name.