Cartouche T-Shirts

We present you with an Aztec Cartouche inspired by our love of Stargate!

Vintage Cartouche frame with marine ropes. Heraldic element isolated on white.

Abstract Decoration

Main cartouche of a Japanese print representing the fight between the Sun God Susanoo no Mikoto and evil kimchi spirits.

Anubis as He is seen in the Book of the Dead

Abstract Decoration

Amenhotep III was one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs. This design shows his coronation name "Neb-Maat-Ra" which could be translated as "Lord of the Justice of the Sun."

This coin is from the end of her reign and the Greek legend reads BACILICCA KLEOPATRA, or "Queen Cleopatra". The cartouche along the bottom gives Cleopatra's royal titulary, translitterated from the hieroglyphs " ḳliwpꜢdrꜢ nṯrt mr(t)-it.s" meaning "Cleopatra Goddess, Beloved of her Father."

Texture of an antique cartouche. Architectural detail

Texture of an antique cartouche. Architectural detail

Sobek-Ra

A cartouche style drawing of Ra, the Ancient Egyptian sun god.

This Egyptian Cartouche depicts the name "Ironsoul".

In ancient Egypt the Eye of Ra, also known as the Eye of Horus, represented the right eye of Horus as the sun Ra. It was commonly used to protect the king in the afterlife and as a symbol to ward off evil.

Queen Nefertari. Wall painting of Queen Nefertari from her tomb. Nefertari lived around 1300-1255 BC and was the first wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. The painting portrays her in the afterlife offering jars of wine to the gods. Next to her are hieroglyphics. The tomb of Queen Nefertari is located in the Valley of the Queens, Thebes, Egypt. It is one of the best preserved and most ornately decorated of all known tombs. It was rediscovered in 1904 by the Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, but has been closed to the public since 2003.

I am The American Eagle heraldic style design depicting an eagle enclosed by a red ribbon wrapping a wooden frame.

In ancient Egypt the Eye of Ra, also known as the Eye of Horus, represented the right eye of Horus as the sun Ra. It was commonly used to protect the king in the afterlife and as a symbol to ward off evil.

cartouche with flowers in the royal gothic style - semi myth - coffin mural in tomb diary.

Vintage illustration antique world map of the Americas by Abraham Ortelius, 1570. Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. A beautiful ornate cartouche with the title Americae Sive Novi Orbis No Va Sescriptio is in the corner.

Vintage illustration antique map of the Americas by Johannes De Ram (1648-1693), c. 1685. A distinct characteristic of this map shows California as an island. The insert in the upper left includes some mythological figures with an angel, the insert in the lower left shows a scene with Natives. Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio per Ioannem De Ram

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring Africa, including the island of Madagascar by Gerardus Mercator, 1633. A beautiful cartouche, ornate inset with the title is in the corner. Also featured are the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Around South Africa, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Tutankhamun's throne name in a cartouche.

Vintage illustration antique South Asian map by Jodocus Hondius for the Gerardus Mercator Atlas, 1606. India Orientalis. This old world map of southeast Asia extends from India to the coasts of Southern China with the Pearl River Estuary, Canton and Formosa, it also includes all of the Malay peninsula and Indochina, northern Borneo and the Philippines, Japan and China. The decorative detail includes a large sea monster and an oriental junk in the Bay of Bengal as well as fine scroll work title and scale cartouches.

Geeky design around knowing hieroglyphics. Just the thing for the dedicated Egyptophile.

Antique old world map from 1705 featuring North America by Pieter van der Aa. The map features California as a peninsula, New Mexico, parts of Canada, Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Neptune and two Native Americans flank the large title cartouche. The routes of the explorers Cortez, Drake and Olivier are shown in the Pacific. L'Amerique Septentrionale Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, etc

Antique old world map of Europe by Gerard and Rumold Mercator, 1595 includes an elegant cartouche in the lower right corner. Europa, ad magnæ Europæ Gerardi Mercatoris P. imitationem / Rumoldi Mercatoris F. cura edita ; servato tamen initio longitudinis ex ratione magnetis, quod Pater in magna sua universali posuit.

Vintage illustration antique map of Africa by Hondius and Jansson, 1635. Africae nova Tabula. This map is filled with fictitious rivers and mountains with the origin of the Nile conforming to the Ptolemaic tradition of twin lakes located below the equator. The Kingdom of Monomotapa fills the entire southern tip of Africa which is now shown as more rounded. The border includes insets with 10 sets of costumed figures, representing the indigenous peoples of Africa and six city views along the top. The cartouche has a clock with Roman numerals and a bell, the face of the clock is a skull surrounded by the rays of the sun.

Horus leads the deceased to the judgement of Maat. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Legendary King

I have strong believe in this. Life is a on going growing up. 100% hand-drawn letters that has been digitally refined.

Two heads are better than one, especially if one can drink the tanna tea while the other chews out the eyeballs of your enemies.

Asteroid Sample Return

The beauty is in the the eye of the beholder.

Painting of a scene from the tomb of Ramses IV, making an offering to the deities Isis and Osiris, derived from Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie (1835–1845) by Jean François Champollion, the scholar who deciphered hieroglyphs!

let there be Chaos

the wonder of Bees