V 842 | LDAB 583) is a papyrus manuscript, written in Ancient Greek, discovered during the 1906 excavations in Oxyrhynchus in modern Egypt by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt.
[3] They produced a transcription of the pieced together fragments, along with two plates and a translation in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 5 in 1908.
[1] The manuscript itself is written on the verso (reverse) of a papyrus roll that was originally used as an official land-survey register.
[4] This is characterised by a sloping, pointed handwriting with alternating thick and thin horizontal and vertical strokes.
Based on the land register on the recto (front) mentioning the 4th and 12th year of an unnamed Emperor, Grenfell & Hunt state that "since the survey was probably written soon after the 12th year, the reign of Commodus, which in Egypt was reckoned from his father's accession and therefore begins with his 20th year, is out of the question; the reign of Hadrian or Antoninus is as likely to be meant as that of Marcus Aurelius[,]"[3]: 111 and therefore "the survey on the recto was, as we have said, written about the middle of the second century, and we should ascribe the text on the verso to the end of that century or the early part of the third.