Papyrus 115

(Referred to Gregory- Aland Sigel 115) 115 Papyrus is an early copy of the Greek New Testament. Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt discovered the Papyrus Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. As part of the Oxyrhynchus papyri he is numbered P. Oxy. 4499th papyrus manuscript consists of 12 fragments of a code of Revelation. Using palaeography, it has been dated to the middle of the third century, around 225-275 AD The Institute for New Testament Textual Research are 3 - 4th century

Description

The original codex had 33-36 lines per page with the dimensions of 15.5 cm by 23.5 cm. From the text of the disclosure, the following verses are still preserved: 2:1-3, 13-15, 27-29; 3:10-12; 5:8-9; 6:5-6; 8.3 to 8, 11-13; 9:1-5, 7-16, 18-21; 10:1-4, 8-11; 11.1 to 5, 8-15, 18-19; 12:1-5, 8-10, 12-17; 13:1-3, 6-16, 18; 14:1-3, 5-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-20; 15.1, 4-7.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category I. 115 follows the text of Codex Alexandrinus (A) and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C).

A special feature of the text is the number of the beast, the (, stigma chi, xi ( ΧΞ Ϛ ) ) instead of the usual 666 to 616 (chi, iota, stigma ( ΧΙ Ϛ ) ) is specified.

This particular manuscript was examined and released only at the end of the twentieth century. It is currently kept in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.