Yet, as is known to every Egyptologist, all of the royal material is particularly difficult to analyze owing to their purposeful orientations. Specifically, what the monarchs wanted to publicize was not their innermost feelings at any specific time and place as we would wish but instead indicate certain reactions to specific events, usually for them very important ones, and most certainly not a psychological summary of their identities.
n Researches therefore have to sift though a quantity of disparate sources in order to limn the monarch’s persona. On the other hand, so long as the royal accounts are detailed enough some distinct characteristics of a pharaoh can be discerned n n n