Register of tax payments of arrears, including geometria TM 12015Karanis (Arsinoites)

Fragment of a tax register from Karanis recording payments, including arrears, by named taxpayers. One entry records 15 drachmas plus 1 drachma of supplementary charges for the geometria (land-survey tax) of year 12, paid in Pharmouthi.

In English machine translation

Geometria was a tax on land measurement, chiefly on vineyards and gardens; prosdiagraphomena were supplementary surcharges added to tax payments. The abbreviations 'lo' and 'ch' are uncertain, possibly meaning a remaining balance and a check mark.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Payments of Arrears Contemporary with No. 225). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.