By studying the style of the script and the strokes, all three of the expert scholars agreed that the fragment had been written in the first half of the second century C.E. ​ — just a few decades after the apostle John’s death!
غير ان علم دراسة الكتابة القديمة ليس وسيلة جازمة لتحديد تواريخ المخطوطات .‏