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- ↑ AE 1953, 79
- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 300
- ↑ Vita Didi Juliani, 7.5