Inena, the D’Orbiney scribe

Egyptian scribe of the late Nineteenth Dynasty, credited by the British Museum with the Two Brothers papyrus around 1215 BCE.

Printed Two Brothers excerpt in Wallis Budge’s Egyptian Language, 1889, pp. 38–39: educational hieroglyphic transcription with English glosses of the armed elder brother. Not a photograph of the hieratic papyrus or Inena’s signatureE. A. Wallis Budge; 1889 printed edition via Wikimedia Commons · Public domainImage source

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Inena is an Egyptian scribe named in connection with D’Orbiney and other Ramesside literary manuscripts. The British Museum identifies him as scribe of EA10183, dated about 1215 BCE. ^[1]

A copyist’s identity and manuscript date help trace the surviving witness. They do not alone date every story element’s invention or oral circulation. The group’s original discovery context remains uncertain. ^[1]^[2]

References and notes

British Museum, EA10183/1: scribe, date, copy and colophon. British Museum, EA10183/1: scribe, date, copy and colophon. Return to the text ↑
UCL, Ramesside manuscript group: scribal links and discovery-context limits. UCL, Ramesside manuscript group: scribal links and discovery-context limits. Return to the text ↑

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Edition 3 · 15 October 2026 · aladmin

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IL Archive, «Inena, the D’Orbiney scribe», Edition 3, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/inena-egyptian-scribe