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Cartouches were used in ancient Egypt as name plates for people of great importance. We at the DecalZone feel that honor should be extended to the masses. Below you will find a quick explanation on how to make one of your own in Egyptian hieroglyphs and customize the color, orientation, and size of your decal.

Spelling Your Name Phonetically:
For this translation program to be its most accurate you must first convert your name, or whatever you want your final cartouche to say, to it's phonetic spelling. In other words, what the name would sound like. There is a catch, in Egyptian they rarely used vowel except when they were at the beginning of a name or where confusion resulted by not including them. Also, the ee sound in geek, for instance, was represented by the y so you would spell it phonetically gyk. There are special characters for CH and SH sound (So when you make your selections below select the ch rather than a c and an h, for instance). Lastly, there are no spaces, even if there is more than one word. My guess is that paper, and gold, for that matter, was very expensive and the scribes didn't want to waste it.

A couple other examples:
Fred = frd
Joe = jo
Ethel = Ethl
Cherrie = chry
DecalZone = dyclzon

Numbers:
Ancient Egyptians did not have separate symbols for one through nine (the concept of representing nothing with a zero was a few centuries away) but instead had symbols for 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000 (this last also represented infinity). So, 1,235 would be 1,000  100 100  10 10 10  1 1 1 1 1.

Letters:              
1
6
11
16
2
7
12
17
3
8
13
18
4
9
14
19
5
10
15
20

Style:
Outline Style is shipped with a transparent fill that allows the surface to which it is applied to show through. Colors displayed by your computer may not match exactly the colors of the vinyl decal. To order a free sampler of all our colors go here.
Available Styles

Combination

Outline
Outline Color
Fill Color
Orientation:
 
Horizontal
Vertical
Discounts for Bulk Orders
Quantity
(identical decals)
Percent off

5-9
30%
10-24
35%
25-49
40%
50-99
45%
100 or More
50%
Size:
inches
This will be the height if horizontal is selected and width if vertical is selected. The other dimension is determined by the number of letters selected. The approximate dimensions will be given with the preview.
Quantity:
 
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