More ‘camera-shy’ ancient potentates

by Damien F. Mackey One may find it very hard to imagine that a ruler of the significance of Djedkare Isesi (Assa), whose reign may have been as long as forty years, has only one image of which to boast. Following on from my very brief article: Shalmaneser V and Nebuchednezzar were ‘camera-shy’? (3) Shalmaneser V and king Nebuchednezzar were 'camera-shy'? | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu I have come across two other powerful rulers of substance, for whom we have, in both cases, only the one statue. These two are Djedkare Isesi of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, and Ashurnasirpal, so-called II, of Assyria. Regarding the seriously megalomaniacal Assyrian king, Ashurnasirpal, I expressed my great surprise in: De-coding Jonah (3) De-coding Jonah as follows: Kings unnecessarily duplicated I was very greatly surprised to read the following piece of information as provided by Mattias Karlsson regarding the almost total lack of statuary depicting the, albeit megalomaniacal, Ashurnasirpal ("Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology Relations of Power in the Inscriptions and Iconography of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859) and Shalmaneser III (858–824)", p. 39. My emphasis): http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:637086/FULLTEXT01.pdf "Staying in Nimrud, two gateway lions (A111) and a statue of the king (AI12, Fig. 18) from the second half, based on the date of the temple inscription, have been excavated from the Sharrat-niphi temple of Nimrud. .... The statue in question is the only known one which depicts Ashurnasirpal II. ...". [End of quotes] As was the case with kings Shalmaneser V and Nebuchednezzar, I have sought for an alter ego for Ashurnasirpal, to put him all back together again. For instance: Chaotic King Lists can conceal some sure historical sequences (DOC) Chaotic King Lists can conceal some sure historical sequences | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu And, now, regarding the long-reigning king of Egypt’s so-called Fifth Dynasty, Djedkare Isesi, I recently wrote in my article: Life of Moses and reform of the Old - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (3) Life of Moses and reform of the Old - Middle Kingdom of Egypt …. Just as in the case of the mighty and long-reigning Khufu, one may find it very hard to imagine that a ruler of the significance of Djedkare Isesi (Assa), whose reign may have been as long as forty years - a figure that we have already found connected with the reign of Snofru - has only one image of which to boast: https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/djedkare/ “The only image of the king is from a temple to Osiris …”. In this same article, “Life of Moses …”, one will find multiple proposed alter egos to suggest that pharaoh Djedkare may by no means have been devoid of ego.