text: Date If the text was written by Paul, it could have been written at Rome during his first imprisonment. Paul would likely have composed it at roughly the same time that he wrote Philemon and Ephesians, as all three letters were sent with Tychicus and Onesimus. A date of 62 AD assumes that the imprisonment Paul speaks of is his Roman imprisonment that followed his voyage to Rome.
  Other scholars have suggested that it was written from Caesarea or Ephesus.
  If the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus, then it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as AD 90.
  Surviving manuscripts
  The original manuscript is lost, as are many early copies. The text of surviving copies varies. The oldest manuscripts transcribing some or all of this letter include:
  Papyrus 46 (c. AD 200)
  Codex Vaticanus (325–350)
  Codex Sinaiticus (330–360)
  Codex Alexandrinus (400–440)
  Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (c. 450)
  Codex Freerianus (c. 450)
  Codex Claromontanus (c. 550; in Greek and Latin)
  Codex Coislinianus (c. 550)
  Content
  Colossae is in the same region as the seven churches of the Book of Revelation. In Colossians there is mention of local brethren in Colossae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis. Colossae was approximately  from Laodicea and  from Hierapolis.