JSesh in the Wild

Miscellaneous non egyptological uses of JSesh

Fancy some oranges?

A few years ago, in my local supermarket, I was amused to find a crate of oranges with familiar decoration... Oranges 🍊🍊🍊 from Egypt decorated with hieroglyphs made with JSesh :-)

Bortoʔān men Masr

For once, the text was taken from an actual source... not very related to fruits, I'm afraid, as...

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JSesh and the « maison de l'Égypte »

The Cité internationale in Paris is a campus dedicated to housing students from all over the world. It's composed of residences for various countries or regions. Some of those are remarkable buildings.

The maison de l'Égypte was built by architect Waleed Arafa in 2023, and its facade is deco...

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JSesh and the Grand Egyptian Museum

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It seems that JSesh has the honour of seeing some of its signs used to adorn the facade of the Grand Egyptian Museum :-)

The facade of the GEM

Look in particular at the lion protome F4 F4, which follows a drawing by M. Serge Thomas and at G17 owl G17, which follows a drawing I made from a si...

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Return of the Vengeance of the Mummy Curse II

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A close up of the coffin

JSesh was used to decorate the coffin of Princess “Ahmanet” in the 2017 film The Mummy starring Sofia Boutella and Tom Cruise.

The coffin can be found in the Turin Museum... 🤔

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