| Artefact ID | 339 |
| TM ID | TM 30163 |
| 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. 73: Letter to Sansnos (?) Two adjoining fragments of a letter, addressed to "my beloved brother Sansnos" (but the name is badly damaged) and someone else (Apo--). This Sansnos might be the same person as the priest in PNH 77-78, the monk in PNH 72 and the "beloved father" in PNH 68, see M. Choat (in Choat and Giorda 2017: 35-36); about the letters addressed to him, see also Bagnall 2018: 80-85. Recto: written along the fibres. Verso: address, along the fibres. |
| 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 13 - 14 c |
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