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Papyrus sheet, damaged by wormholes and larger gaps especially in the folds, and lacking the top left, bottom left and bottom right edges. Writing is on one side along the fibres. Mounted in a glass case.

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, originally light-brown, but darkened in places, especially on the back. Both sides bear writing, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front contains parts of four columns; of the first and fourth columns, part of the top and bottom remain; of the second, part of the bottom; the third is the best preserved. Each column originally contained 25 lines, for a height of 177 mm; upper and lower margins measure 45 and 58 mm respectively. The intercolumn measures x mm. The text on the back is arranged in columns, of which few portions remain.

Modern annotations are visible, with the number in red referring to the publication in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

Three papyrus fragments, mounted in a glass case:

Left fragment = Papyrus 1605a: Strip of papyrus written on both sides. On the upper part of the recto, along the fibres, are small portions of 8 lines of a document, followed by blank space. On the verso, across the fibres, are parts of 34 lines in a different hand. The text in lines 1-14 is damaged and mostly illegible.

Upper right fragment = Papyrus 1605b: Fragment probably of a papyrus roll with remains of 13 lines written on the verso across the fibres. Only the upper margin is preserved. There are three acute accents. The recto is blank, except for two characters, a tau or pi on the upper right edge of the papyrus and a L-shaped sign below on the left.

Lower right fragment = Papyrus 1605c: Small fragment of a papyrus roll broken on all sides and containing remains of 10 lines written on the recto along the fibres. The back is blank and no margins are preserved. Further fragments from the same roll are contained in an Oxyrhynchus papyrus published as P.Oxy. LVI 3830.

Two fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Upper fragment (A): Fragment from the bottom of a leaf of a parchment codex; portions of 7 lines from the foot of a column survive on each side. The lines on the front lack the ends, those on the back lack the beginninhs. The lower margin measures 50 mm.

Lower fragment (B): Upper portion of a papyrus sheet, written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank; with abrasion in places; 5 lines, with traces of a sixth line at the bottom.

Fully preserved papyrus sheet, light-brown in its lower half, lacking the lower left edge. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. All margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Two fragments of a papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with some 20 letters lost in between; mutilated at the bottom (front), and with few small insect holes in the preserved fragments. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back. On the front, the left fragment bears the beginnings of 3 lines and the right fragment the ends of 6 lines. Both fragments have modern annotations. On the back there are three rubbed lines arranged in one column and a word written next to it; on the other fragment, written in the reverse direction, there is another line. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, almost complete, only lacking the lower right corner; with few holes and minor surface damage in places. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back. On the front there are 8 lines, with line 7 written in the right-hand half of the sheet, and line 8 indented. All margins survive, and there is a modern annotation. The back bears 3 lines written in the lower left corner and an additional line next to them; the text was written upside down in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.