nag hammadi

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nag hammadi (enc)

Noun	1.	Nag Hammadi - a town in Upper Egypt town - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work" Upper Egypt - one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan
	2.	Nag Hammadi - 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 first-hand knowledge of Gnosticism Nag Hammadi Library aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole

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