King Tut name inside Cartouche Silver Pendant

Feel unique by wearing King Tut name inside Cartouche Silver Pendant. King Tut is short for King Tutankhamen. His name is actually pronounced like this: Toot-ong-kah-men. King Tut was only Pharaoh for about 9 years. Yet he is probably one of the most famous pharaohs of all.

King Tut was nine years old when he became Pharaoh. He was a teenager when he died. His people did not have time in nine years to built a huge tomb for him. They had to quickly finish a tiny tomb. Because his tomb was so small, archaeologists and grave robbers did not discover it until many thousands of years later.

It was not until 1922 that Howard Carter  entered Tut’s tomb. He found a bag of gold rings dropped on the floor. But it might have fallen accidentally. If robbers had been there, they did not take very much. There was still a solid gold mask on King Tut’s face, now resides at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The tomb was full of treasures.
Cartouche is actually a French word meaning ‘gun cartridge’. When Napoleon’s soldiers were in Egypt, they nicknamed the oval shape surrounding the king names with that word because it reminded them of the shape of their gun cartridges, or bullets. At the time, people could not read hieroglyphic writing, it’s became so commonly used that it has remained the standard name for the shape around the name of an Egyptian pharaoh or queen.

Furthermore the rich colors used in the cartouche design had meaning. Red signified the god, Ra. While Blue symbolized the Nile.

Like all our other exquisite jewelry, this pendant is handcrafted, highly detailed, top quality & made to last a lifetime. Furthermore it bears the 925 silver stamp for authenticity purposes.

Additional info:

• Shipment of our King Tut name inside Cartouche Silver Pendant takes from 4-6 business days

• Shipping takes place from Egypt