Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1

It was discovered on the second day of excavation, 12 January 1897, in the garbage mounds in the Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus.

[2][3] Grenfell and Hunt originally dated the fragment between 150 and 300, but "probably not written much later than the year 200.

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way (ΙΣ, ΘΥ, ΠΡΑ, ΑΝΩΝ).

[5] According to Grenfell and Hunt, who identified this fragment only as Logia Iesu ("Sayings of Jesus"),[6] the original manuscript contained a collection of Jesus's sayings, which were independent of the four Gospels in their present form.

[7] Grenfell and Hunt did not realize they had discovered part of the Gospel of Thomas, as at the time there was no reference text.

[8] The only complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas was found in 1945 when a Coptic version was discovered at Nag Hammadi with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts,[9] and it was only after that discovery that the text of Oxyrhynchus Papyri I was able to be attributed.