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Abbreviations
SEG
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, online edition.
IG
Inscriptiones Graecae
ID
Inscriptions de Dlos
Milet
P. Herrmann, W. Gnther & N. Ehrhardt , Inschriften von Milet, Teil 3. Inschriften n.
10201580, BerlinNew York, 2006.

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