Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655

There is no punctuation, no rough breathings, no accents, no division between sayings, nor instances of using of the nomina sacra.

[4] The fragment contains logia (sayings) 36–39 of the Gospel of Thomas on the recto side of the leaf.

According to them it could have belonged to the Gospel according to the Egyptians (as postulated by Adolf Harnack), or a collections of Jesus's Sayings used in the Second Epistle of Clement.

[6] 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.

The fragment is housed at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (SM Inv.

P. Oxy. 655