Cartouche



A cartouche is a oval or oblong figure in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that encloses characters. The coverstones found over the Stargate in Giza, 1928 contained a cartouche with the gate coordinates for the planet Abydos. After traveling through to Abydos, Daniel Jackson found a corresponding cartouche with the gate symbols for Earth.

After spending a month on Abydos, Daniel Jackson discovered another, much larger, cartouche that contained gate coordinates for a huge gate network. This cartouche was the sole sourse of gate addresses for the SGC until more were downloaded into Jack O'Neill's mind from the Ancient's repository of knowledge.