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- 1 2 Günther Hölbl, History of the Ptolemaic Empire, Routledge, 2000, pp. 155ff.
- ↑ Willy Clarysse (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), The Great Revolt of the Egyptians, Lecture held at the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California at Berkeley, on March 16, 2004, accessed 15 August 2006