| Artefact ID | 325 |
| TM ID | TM 32415 |
| 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. 75: Letter to Sansnos. Top portion of a letter written by a certain Besarion to "[his] lord father Sansnos" including instructions that an adelphos be given five artabas of wheat. Recto written along the fibres; Verso blank. Sansnos is very likely to be the same person as the priest in P.Nag Hamm. 77-78, the monk in P.Nag Hamm. 72 or the "beloved father" in P.Nag Hamm. 68, see M. Choat (Choat and Giorda 2017: 35-36); about the letters addressed to him, see also Bagnall 2018: 80-85. |
| 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 16 c |
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