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A copy of a tax receipt recording payments of the geometria (land-survey tax) for year 10 at Hermonthis, made on behalf of two men through agents named Germanos and Julius Gemellus. The payments were made on Phaophi 30 of year 11 and Pauni 17, totalling 3 drachmas 2 obols, in the 2nd century AD.
Geometria was a tax connected with land survey, often levied on garden or orchard land; it has no exact English equivalent. The payers' names are largely illegible, and the per-person amounts in line 5 are restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Γεωμετρία). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἀντίγραφον ἀποχῆς ια ἔτους Φαῶφι λ γεωμετρίας Ἑρμώνθεως ι ἔτους ὀνόματος Μ……α Διδυμ διὰ Γερμανοῦ καὶ Μ……α Ἀχιλλείους διὰ Ἰουλίου Γεμέλλου γεωμετρίας ι ἔτους Ἑρμώνθεως ἑκάστου ἀνδρὸς ὀβολοὺς ε, γίνονται δραχμὴ α ὀβολοὶ δ, Παῦνι ιζ γεωμετρίας δραχμὴν α ὀβολοὺς δ, γίνονται γεωμετρία…
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