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Papyrus 81

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Date
  
4th century

Found
  
Egypt

Script
  
Greek

Now at
  
Property S. Daris

Text
  
First Epistle of Peter 2-3 †

Cite
  
S. Daris, Un nuovo frammento della prima lettera di Pietro, (Barcelona: 1967), pp. 11-37.

Papyrus 81 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 81, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle of Peter. The surviving texts of 1 Peter are verses 2:20-3:1,4-12. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

Location

It is currently housed at the Property S. Daris (№ 20) in Trieste.

References

Papyrus 81 Wikipedia
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