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- ↑ CIL XIV, 04562.07 = AE 2005, +00088
- ↑ Paul M. M. Leunissen provides the reading "[...]ius [Su?]lla Urbanus". (Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 137)
- ↑ AE 2009, 01799; AE 2006, 00077
- 1 2 Krieckhaus, "Vater und Sohn, Bemerkungen zu den severischen consules ordinarii M. Munatius Sulla Cerialis und M. Munatius Sulla Urbanus", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 153 (2005), pp. 283f.