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- ↑ CIL VI, 1603 = ILS 1346
- ↑ CIG III.5973
- 1 2 Henriette Pavis D'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin, (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1976), p. 354
- ↑ CIL III, 14165, 8 = ILS 6987
- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 305