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Ostracon receipt issued by the tax contractors of the sacred gate of Syene, through their assistant Sarapion, to Pachomios son of Pachomios for 26 drachmas 4 obols paid as geometria (land-measurement tax) on a date-palm grove for the crop of year 4 of Antoninus Pius. Dated 1 November 141, from Elephantine or Syene.
Geometria was a tax assessed on land under orchards, vineyards and palm groves, based on surveyed area; it has no exact English equivalent. The grandfather's name is illegible.
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.
Ἰσίδωρος καὶ Ἡρακλείδης μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος βοηθοῦ, διέγραψεν Παχόμιος Παχομίου τοῦ …… ὑπὲρ γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος γενήματος τοῦ δ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς εἴκοσι ἓξ ὀβολοὺς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ κϛ τετρώβολον. ἔτους ε Ἀντωνείνου τοῦ…
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