Papyrus 115

Papyrus 𝔓¹¹⁵
New Testament manuscript
	Red arrow points to χιϛ (616), "number of the beast" in P115
Name	P. Oxy. 4499
Text	Rev 2-3, 5-6, 8-15
Date	c. 275
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum
Cite	Juan Chapa, Oxyrynchus Papyri 66:11-39. (#4499)
Size	26 fragments; 15.5 x 23.5 cm; 33-36 lines/page
Type	Alexandrian, close agreement with A & C
Category	I
Note	Gives number of the beast as 616

Papyrus 115 (P. Oxy. 4499), designated by 𝔓¹¹⁵ (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts) is a fragmented manuscript of the New Testament written in Greek on papyrus. It consists of 26 fragments of a codex containing parts of the Book of Revelation. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), the manuscript is dated to the third century, c. 225-275 AD. Scholars Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Hunt discovered the papyrus in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.

**Grenfell and Hunt**

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

𝔓¹¹⁵ was not deciphered and published until 2011. It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum.

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