English noun: Nag Hammadi | |||
1. | Nag Hammadi (location) a town in Upper Egypt | ||
Instance hypernym | town | ||
Part meronym | Upper Egypt | ||
2. | Nag Hammadi (group) 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 | ||
Synonyms | Nag Hammadi Library | ||
Instance hypernym | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||