Agraphou metallou graphe
ἀγράφου μετάλλου γραφή
Agraphou metallou graphe (ἀγράφου μετάλλου γραφή) was an action brought before the thesmothetae at Athens, against an individual who worked a mine without having previously registered it. The state required that all mines should be registered, because the twenty-fourth part of their produce was payable to the public treasury. (Böckh, Publ. Econ. of Athens, p. 664, 2nd ed.; Meier, Att. Process, p. 354.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.