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- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 467
- ↑ IGR III.970; this inscription is fully discussed by Terence Bruce Mitford, The Inscriptions of Kourion (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971), inscription 86, pp. 159-162
- ↑ Mitford, Inscriptions of Kourion, p. 161
- ↑ Mitford, Inscriptions of Kourion, inscription 109, pp. 211-213
- ↑ Mitford, Inscriptions of Kourion, inscription 110, pp. 214f