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.
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 (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).