It was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in 1897 at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, and first published by them in 1898.
[1] The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll,[2] and dates to the third century.
The text is written in a large thick formal uncial hand.
The text on the fragment is identical to Karl Wilhelm Dindorf and Friedrich Blass' 1885 edition of Demosthenes.
[2] It is housed in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University.