| 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 to Sansnos. Letter sent by Harpocration to "[his] beloved father" Sansnos – elsewhere called a monk (PNH 72) and priest (PNH 78) – with a request for assistance regarding a "brother" harassed by a certain Peter in some business matter, and an appeal to the love of Christ (τῇ ἐν Χρηστῷ (l. Χριστῷ) σου ἀγάπῃ). He also asks Sansnos to "help us" obtain loads of chaff, and greets "all the brothers with whom you are". Recto: written along the fibres. Verso: address along the fibres.
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| 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 (PNH 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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