Papyrus 115


Papyrus 115 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, and probably nothing more. It dates to the third century, c. 225-275 AD. Grenfell and Hunt discovered the papyrus in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
115 was not deciphered and published until the end of the twentieth century. It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum.

Description

The original codex had 33-36 lines per page of 15.5 cm by 23.5 cm. The surviving text includes Revelation 2:1-3, 13-15, 27-29; 3:10-12; 5:8-9; 6:5-6; 8:3-8, 11-13; 9:1-5, 7-16, 18-21; 10:1-4, 8-11; 11:1-5, 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 manuscript has evidence of the following nomina sacra: , , , , , , , , , , , ,.
The manuscript uses the Greek Numeral system, with no number extant as being written out in full.
The manuscript is a witness to the Alexandrian text-type, following the text of Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus.
An interesting element of 115 is that it gives the number of the beast in Revelation 13:18 as 616 ), rather than the majority reading of 666, as does Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus.
According to the transcription of the INTF, a conjectured reading of the manuscript, due to the space left, is η , therefore not giving a definite number to the beast.

Textual variantsTaken from NA27 Edition Apparatus, and http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/nt-transcripts

8:12

9:11

9:13

11:15

12:3

13:8

13:13

14:6

14:20