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Noun: Nag Hammadi
  1. A town in Upper Egypt
     
  2. A collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
    - Nag Hammadi Library

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, town

Part of: Upper Egypt

Encyclopedia: Nag Hammadi