Papyrus 81

Papyrus 81 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁸¹, 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.

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

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

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

• S. Daris, Un nuovo frammento della prima lettera di Pietro, Papyrologica Castroctaviana. Studia et Textus 2 (Barcelona: 1967), pp. 11–37.
• K. Junack and W. Grunewald, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: I Die Katholischen Briefe, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung VI (Berlin/New York, 1986).