Papyrus 115 (P. Oxy. 4499)
Papyrus 115 (P. Oxy. 4499, designated by P115) 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 early to the middle third century, c. 200-250 AD. Grenfell and Hunt discovered the papyrus in Oxyrhynchus (known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa), Egypt.
P115 was not deciphered and published until the end of the twentieth century. It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum.
Description of P115
The original codex had 33-36 lines per page of 15.5 cm by 23.5 cm. The surviving text includes some parts of Revelation. it gives the number of the beast in Revelation 13:18 as 616, rather than the majority reading of 666. According to the transcription of the INTF (Institute for New Testament Textual Research), a conjectured reading of the manuscript, due to the space left, is (666 or 616), therefore not giving a definite number to the beast,
The manuscript is a witness to the Alexandrian text-type, following the text of Codex Alexandrinus (A) and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C).
