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Ostracon tax receipt recording two payments made on the same day by Petechnous son of Ammonios on behalf of Ammonios son of Psentoueris: 2 drachmas for the geometria on a palm grove and 1 drachma 3 1/2 obols for the quarter tax on the same grove's crop of year 25. Issued by the assistant Amenothes at Elephantine or Syene in AD 185.
Geometria was a tax on land assessed by survey, and the tetarte a tax of one quarter levied on palm grove produce. The phrase rendered 'the fourth installment' (τὸ δ) is uncertain in meaning.
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 and other Taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κϛ ἔτους Ἁθὺρ ιδ διέγραψεν Πετεχνουτ Ἀμμωνίου ὑπὲρ γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος γενήματος κε ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἀμμωνίου Ψεντουῶρις τὸ δ δραχμὰς δύο, γίνονται δραχμαὶ β, διʼ ἐμοῦ Ἀμενώθου. τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ διέγραψεν ὑπὲρ τετάρτης φοινικῶνος γενήματος κε ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἀμμωνίου Ψεντουῶρις δραχμ…
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