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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2011
1 Corpus of Jewish Inscriptions: Jewish Inscriptions from the Third Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A.D. (New York: Ktav, 1975) 1. 87–91.Google Scholar
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