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A tax receipt from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, issued under the authority of Lucius Pupius Saturninus, overseer of the metropolitan bureau. It records payments on a half share of palm groves of about 1 3/16 arouras, covering public dues and the survey tax for years 10 and 11.
Geometria was a land-survey tax levied on orchards and palm groves; the epiteretes was a supervisor of tax collection. One word in line 6 is illegible and the relation between the 12-drachma entries and the 10 drachmas 2 obols signed for is unclear.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Φιλαδελφίας Λουκίου Πουφίου Σατορνείλου ἐπιτηρητοῦ γραφείου μητροπόλεως ἡμίσους μέρους φοινικώνων ἀρούρης α η ιϛ ὑπὲρ ἡμίσους τετάρτου μέρους τῶν δημοσίων καὶ τετάρτου μέρους γεωμετρίας αἱ ἐν τῇ προούσῃ τοῦ ι ἔτους ε…αι δραχμαὶ ιβ καὶ ὑπὲρ λημμάτων ια ἔτους αἱ κατὰ τόπον δραχμαὶ …
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