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| | Ptolemy Apion |
 | | 26 (1972) 358, reviews the available inscriptions naming the admiral Stolos, including an inscription from Apollonia in Cyrenaica (H. Hauben and E. Van't Dack, |
 | | He concludes that Stolos served Ptolemy IX after his expulsion from Egypt by Cleopatra III, and that the Cyrenean inscription must be dated no earlier than 106/5, suggesting Ptolemy IX lost control of Cyrene after that date, presumably to Ptolemy Apion, i.e. |
 | | III.378, a Greek translation of a Roman law against piracy found at Delphi, which refers to the kings of Egypt, Cyprus and Cyrene, and must therefore date before 96. |
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