Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way (ΙΗΣ for Ἰησοῦς Jesus).

[4] 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.

[5] The fragment contains logia (sayings) 1–7 of the Gospel of Thomas on the verso side of the leaf (opisthograph).

[2] Grenfell and Hunt also discovered another two fragments of this apocryphal Gospel: P. Oxy.

The fragment is housed at the Department of manuscripts of the British Library (Inv.