Fragment of a loan acknowledgment with repayment clause TM 144697Didymoi

Fragment of a private legal document on an ostracon from Didymoi, apparently a loan acknowledgment. The surviving lines contain the debtor's promise to repay without delay or dispute and a penalty clause providing for interest if repayment is late.

In English machine translation

Identification as a loan rests on the standard repayment and late-interest formulas; the parties, sum and date are lost. Didymoi was a Roman military station on the road from Koptos to Berenike in the Eastern Desert.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Actes de droit privé). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.