nag hammadi

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1. 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 (noun.group)

instance hypernym	:	accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection,
definition	:	several things grouped together or considered as a whole (noun.group)

2. a town in Upper Egypt (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	town,
definition	:	an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city (noun.location)

part meronym	:	upper egypt,
definition	:	one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan (noun.location)

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