A Parallel to the Inaros Story of P. Krall (P. Carlsberg 456 + P. Ctybr 4513): Demotic Narratives from the Tebtunis Temple Library (I) *

Abstract

First publication of a fragmentary papyrus housed in the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Copenhagen University, P. Carlsberg 456 (together with a small fragment of the same papyrus housed in the Beinecke Library, Yale, P. CtYBR 4513), which preserves parts of the opening sections of the Demotic narrative ‘The Battle for the Armour of Inaros’. This is otherwise known only from a substantial papyrus housed at Vienna, P. Krall = P. Dem. Vindob. 6521–6609, the beginning of which is severely damaged. The two versions are here edited with parallel transliterations, and parallel or combined translations. A partial reconstruction is offered of the early part of the story, which has so far remained obscure.