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Title: Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān
Date Created and/or Issued: 1975
Publication Information: Claremont Graduate University. Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, School of Religion
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Nag Hammadi Archive
Rights Information: Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws.
Description: Man identified as Muḥammad 'Alī of the al-Sammān clan, who is credited for having discovered ancient codices in a jar buried at Jabal al-Ṭārif. Muḥammad 'Alī and his family destroyed some of the codices found at the site.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: nha00806.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nha/id/831
Language: Arabic
Subject: Egyptians
Clothing and dress - Egypt
Nag Hammadi codices
Portraits
Jabal al-Ṭārif (Egypt)
Source: Black and white photograph, 3.5 x 5 inches: Institute for Antiquity and Christianity; 1.3.1.2. Non-codices photographs 2. Persons, places, things:35mm…1975 I #6 to 75 XII 7; Inscribed 75 IX 8 - 7A
Relation: Nag Hammadi Archive - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/nha

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