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15 October 2003

A Touch of Cartouche

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The kingdom of Egypt figures prominently during the Old Testament Seminary year as you teach the final chapters of Genesis and the beginning chapters of Exodus.

One fun thing you can do to recognize "the Egyptian chapters" is to create and use cartouches -- for both scriptural individuals and your students.

Webster's Dictionary defines a cartouche (pronounced car-toosh, with the emphasis on the second syllable) as "an oval or oblong figure (as on ancient Egyptian monuments) enclosing a sovereign's name."

Here are a few of the ways you can use cartouches to supplement your teaching this year:

Create cartouche nametags for your students when you study any of the "Egyptian chapters."
Add cartouches to Seminary birthday cards, "get well" cards, handouts, notices, and invitations.
Display them as "Attention Getters" at the beginning or during a lesson. Create cartouches for Pharaoh, Moses, Aaron, etc. (The cartouche at the right, for example, is for Asenath -- Joseph's wife.)

In addition to the Genesis and Exodus "Egyptian chapters," you can also uses cartouches in other lessons when Egypt is mentioned.

Making computer cartouches is easy with a free cartouche-creating program from Tontin Software. Click here to download a copy. This is a compressed ("zipped") 1.8MB file. To use it: uncompress it, and then double-click on the file CartoucheSetup.exe to install the program on your computer.
After you start the program, click on the window labeled "Cartouche Maker v1.0."
The cartouche program can create nine different styles of cartouches. (The picture at the top of this newsletter shows the name "LINDA" in all nine styles.)
There a few basic rules for creating cartouches:

You may enter only letters (A-Z) and spaces.

All letters are capitals.

No numbers or punctuation are allowed.

You may enter a maximum of 12 characters.

After you create a cartouche, click on the "Copy to Clipboard" button. You may then Paste your cartouche into any program that can accept graphics (such as, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, WordPerfect, or Paint).

If you are creating "an Egyptian temple" with your student's names on the individual pillars, you can use spaces (both before and/or after their names) to ensure that all of the pillar cartouches will be the same height. For example:

(Please note that the cartouches created with this program use Egyptian characters, but in most cases they will not be historically accurate.)

To possibly save you some time, here are some scripture-based cartouches for you to copy and use (remember that the cartouche for Asenath, Joseph's wife, is found above). To copy a cartouche below: (1) point your mouse at the cartouche you wish to copy, (2) RIGHT-click your mouse, (3) select COPY, and then (4) PASTE it into the program and file of your choice.

Joseph Zaphnath-paaneah
(see Genesis 41:45) Pharaoh Ramses

Moses Aaron Israel Jacob

Let your imagination be your guide and have some fun adding cartouches to your Seminary Old Testament teaching toolkit!

Best wishes,

Ken

www.KenAlford.com

(845) 446-4927

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