Nag Hammadi

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noun

1. a town in Upper Egypt
• Instance Hypernyms:
town
• Part Holonyms:
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
• Syn:
Nag Hammadi Library
• Instance Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage