find-site
Nag Hammadi
near Nag Hammadi, Egypt
26.050, 32.241
Attested. The 1945 find and the contents of the codices are established. The popular story of the exact moment of discovery is reconstructed from later interviews.
In 1945 farmers found a jar of Coptic codices buried near the town. The books, copied in the fourth century, preserve earlier works often grouped as gnostic or related literature, including the Gospel of Thomas.
Related places
- Jabal al-Tarif (Nag Hammadi find-site) — Find site across the river from the town of Nag Hammadi.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
350. Coptic codices copied around the mid-4th c. were buried nearby and found in 1945.
Gospels.net manuscript information · Unverified in the source note
Manuscripts tied to this place
Further reading
Councils here
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