PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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le mois copte de Toth ‘Thoth according to the Egyptians’

French

References: PH Morelon: I.8:4, 26:18
Translation of:
Arabic: شهر توت من شهور القبط [PH Morelon: I.8:4, 27:14-15]