| Artefact ID | 309 |
| TM ID | TM 32410 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 34 (Ǧabal al-Ṭārif) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Archive/Dossier | Archive |
| Description | P.Nag Hamm. 68: Letter from Harpocration to Sansnos. This letter is one of the eight documents preserved in the cartonnage of the Nag Hammadi codex VII that are addressed to the monk and priest Sansnos. It contains a plea made by a certain Harpocration in order to settle an issue related to the recovery of rent money owed by a "brother" Appianus. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts |
| Date from | 325 |
| Date to | 375 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. Also, other waste papyri recovered from the same cartonnage used to construct the Nag Hammadi codex VII include contracts dated 341, 346 and 348 (P.Nag Hamm. 65). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The leather covers of eight of the twelve Nag Hammadi codices found in a sealed jar by Egyptian agricultural workers in 1945 (see ID 23) had been strengthened by cartonnage made of waste papyri. This papyrus comes from the richest of these cartonnages, codex VII. |
| Accession number | Cairo, Coptic Museum Nag Hamm. VII 8 c |
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