ABSTRACT
The two papyri which I propose to call in future Papyrus Carnarvon I and II are of great importance on account of their date. 1 They both bear the protocol [illegible text in source] a local king who reigned in Upper Egypt under Ptolemaios Epiphanes (205–181 b.c.). The king is named Harmachis, and so far there are known to exist only three other contracts of his time, two in the Berlin Museum (Demotic Pap. Berlin, Nos. 3142–4, 3145), dated in his third and sixth years, and another mentioned in the Revue Égyptologique, I, p. 121 (the collection in which it is preserved not being mentioned), is dated in his fifth year.
