Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 85

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 85 (P. Oxy. 85) is part of a series of declarations by various guilds of workmen, written in Greek. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The document was written on 26 November 338. Currently it is housed in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum (760) in London.^[1]

The letter contains a series of declarations (six of them preserved), addressed to Flavius Eusebius, a logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome (the same one as in P. Oxy. 86). The guilds state the value of their goods left in stock at the end of a month. Guilds represented are coppersmiths, beer sellers, bakers, oil sellers, and bee-keepers. The declaration from the coppersmiths was written by Aurelius Thonis. The measurements of the fragment are 238 by 220 mm.^[2]

Papyri P.Oxy. LIV 3772 and SB XVI 12648 are similar to this one.^[1]

It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.^[2] It was also examined by Joachim Hengstl (1985).

• Oxyrhynchus Papyri
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 84
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 86

• Coles, R. A. P. Oxy. I 85 Revised, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 39 (1980), pp. 115–125.

• P.Oxy.1.85 = HGV P.Oxy. 1 85 = Trismegistos 20743

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: B. P. Grenfell; A. S. Hunt (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.