Receipt for geometria
This ostracon is a receipt for geometria.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30028
Receipt for geometria tax TM 30028unknownSecond century CE
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Ostracon receipt recording payment of four 'dirty' drachmas for the geometria (land-survey tax) of year 11, paid in the name of Herieus son of Ph[…] through Amenrosis. It dates to the second century AD.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] in the name of P[…]
of Herieus son of Ph[…] through the same Amenrosis:
I have received for geometria of year 11 four dirty drachmas, total 4 dirty drachmas.
[…] I have signed.
Geometria was a tax tied to the survey of land, especially vineyards and orchards. 'Dirty' (rhyparai) 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.
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[… ? lines lost …] […]…β ὀνόματος Π[…] Ἑριεῦτος Φθ διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀμενρώσιος ἔσχον ὑπὲρ γεωμετρίας ια ἔτους ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς τέσσαρες, γίνονται ῥυπαραὶ δραχμαὶ δ. …… σεσημείωμαι.