1. This is a joke as Smyly was the new professor of Latin.

2. Wessely's Topographie des Faijû̂m (Arsinoites Nomus) in griechischer Zeit

3. in Vienna.

4. "l." means "read."

5. Eventually published as App. 2 in P.Tebt. II, "The Topography of the Arsinoite Nome."

6. Reference is to Wilcken's Grieschische Ostraka.

7. Reference to tins of papyri.