Hieroglyphs Your name in a cartouche
A modern game, played with real signs. Egyptians wrote only royal names in cartouches, and they wrote mostly consonants. When scribes of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods had to write Greek and Latin names (Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Caesar), they spelled them with sound signs, as this tool does. So there is no single right way to write your name.
Letters A to Z; up to 16 letters. Accents are dropped.
Letter by letter: choose other signs
Tap a sign to use it for that letter. The first choice is the one Ptolemaic scribes would most likely have used.
Read a real cartouche
The names of real rulers as they appear in their cartouches. Watch for the sun disk 𓇳 of the god Ra: it is written first out of respect but often read last.
Sources and credits
- The spelling rules, sign choices and drawing: Cartouche maker, Teddy Rook Book. CC BY-NC 4.0.
- Signs, sound values and Gardiner codes: Egyptian Grammar, Sir Alan Gardiner (Oxford, 1927; 3rd edition 1957), and its Sign List. Facts and readings, cited.
- The hieroglyphs: TRB Hieroglyphs font, Teddy Rook Book (original drawings). SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Transliteration letters: FreeSerif, a subset, GNU FreeFont contributors. GPL 3 or later, with the font exception.
Everything else here is by Teddy Rook Book, CC BY-NC 4.0. All the terms.