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- ↑ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 17 (1975), p. 314
- ↑ The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, No. 720 (ed. B.P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt), vol. iv pp. 196f
- ↑ Papyri Oxyrhynchus, 1271. English translation in A. S. Hunt and C.C. Edgar, Select Papyri, II. Non-literary Papyri. Public Documents (London: Loeb, 1932), pp. 320f
- ↑ Papyri Oxyrhynchus, 1662. English translation in Hunt and Edgar, Select Papyri, II, pp. 396f