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File:Alexandria Library Inscription.jpg

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Inscription regarding Tiberius Claudius Babillus of Rome (d. 56 CE) which confirms that the Library of Alexandria must have existed in some form in the first century AD.

Source: "Forschungen in Ephesos", Vol. III, Vienna 1923, p.128.

References: IK-17-01, 03042 = AE 1924, 00078 = AE 1927, +00156 = AE 1933, +00251b = AE 1934, +00001

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