This presented me with a couple of challenges. One it was my traditional mixed color pencil, marker, gouache technique but it was actually down on Egyptian papyrus. Two was the fact my technique is somewhat transparent so I had layout the image so none of really dark strands of papyrus ran through the mouse figure. Three I had to get a crash course on hierogyphics since I wanted the cartouche to actually say something correct. Finally I had to reference on how the ancient egyptians actually produced their works. Fortunately one my coworkers has been a instructor and lecturer at the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose and he was able to get me pointed in the right direction for my research. The leopard pharoh is shown in the classic conquering pose and the cartouche reads "He who conquers!". The rest of the equipment and red layout with black final outline technique are indicative of what we know of Ancient Egyptian production methods. I got a very big kick when a client who went to Egypt on a shopping expedition and purchased a T-shirt with this image on it was stopped by a staff member of the Cairo Museum and asked where they had gotten it since the staff member was impressed by the accuracy of the piece! It's little things like that that make this profession so satisfying for me at times!