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An ostracon tax receipt from Thebes in which the money-tax collectors Apollodoros and Psenamounis acknowledge payment of 4 drachmas from Petechespochrates for the land-survey tax (geometria) of year 11 of Antoninus Pius. A second entry records a further payment of 12 drachmas on behalf of Senmouthes, made through Maieuris.
Geometria was a tax connected with land survey, levied mainly on garden and orchard land. "Dirty" (rhypara) drachmas refers to debased billon coinage.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Geometria). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀπολλόδωρος καὶ Ψεναμοῦνις πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἀγορῶν β Πετεχεσποχράτῃ Φατρήους Ψενασούχιος ἔσχομεν ὑπὲρ γεωμετρίας ια ἔτους ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ. ἔτους ιβ Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Θὼθ β. Ὀννῶφρις σεσημείωμαι. Ψεναμοῦνις. ἄλλας Θὼθ κη ὀνόματος Σενμούθ…
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