Abbreviations
Papyrological sources not listed below are abbreviated in accordance with Checklist of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets (
| AJA | American Journal of Archaeology |
| AJPh | American Journal of Philology |
| Anth. Plan. | Anthologia Planudea |
| AP | Anthologia Palatina |
| AT | Antiquité Tardive |
| BASP | Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists |
| BHL | Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina |
| BICS | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London |
| BL | Berichtigungsliste der griech. Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten (1922–) |
| BMCR | Bryn Mawr Classical Review |
| BZ | Byzantinische Zeitschrift |
| CCSL | Corpus Christianorum, series Latina (1953–) |
| CIL | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum |
| CLA | Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century. 1934–1966. 12 vols., ed. E. A. Lowe (Oxford). |
| CLRE | Consuls of the Later Roman Empire, eds. R. S. Bagnall, A. Cameron, S. R. Schwartz and K. A. Worp (Atlanta, GA, 1987) |
| CPh | Classical Philology |
| CQ | Classical Quarterly |
| CR | Classical Review |
| CSEL | Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (1866–) |
| CTh | Codex Theodosianus |
| EFH | Entretiens [de la Fondation Hardt] sur l’antiquité classique |
| EM | Etymologicum Magnum |
| GRBS | Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies |
| HSCPh | Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |
| ICUR | Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae |
| IGLS | Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie |
| ILS | H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae |
| JHS | Journal of Hellenic Studies |
| JLA | Journal of Late Antiquity |
| JRA | Journal of Roman Archaeology |
| JRS | Journal of Roman Studies |
| LfgrE | Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos |
| LGB | Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens |
| LPR | Alan Cameron, Last Pagans of Rome (2011) |
| MEFRA | Mélanges de l’École française de Rome: Antiquité |
| MGH AA | Monumenta Germaniae Historica Auctores Antiquissimi |
| MP3 + number | Mertens-Pack3 database ( |
| OLD | Oxford Latin Dictionary |
| PG | Patrologia Graeca |
| PL | Patrologia Latina |
| PLRE | Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire 1, ed. A. H. M. Jones et al. (Cambridge, 1970); 2 and 3, ed. J. R. Martindale (Cambridge, 1980–92) |
| RAC | Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum |
| RhM | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| RIC | H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, et al., Roman Imperial Coinage (1923–67); rev. edn. of vol. 1 only, C. H. V. Sutherland and R. A. G. Carson (London, 1984) |
| SB | F. Preisigke et al., Sammelbuch griechischen Urkunden aus Ägypten (Berlin, 1915–) |
| SC | Sources chrétiennes |
| SEG | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum |
| SP | Studia Patristica |
| SPP | Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde |
| TM + number | Trismegistos texts database ( |
| ThGl | Thesaurus Graecae Linguae, ed. H. Stephanus et al. |
| TLL | Thesaurus Linguae Latinae |
| ZPE | Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |