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ENDNOTES
1 Turfan fragment M 5569. Translation from D. M. Gwynn, Christianity in the Later
Roman Empire: A Sourcebook (London, 2014), p. 178
2 See M. J. Vermaseren, ‘The Seven Grades of Initiation’, in Mithras: The Secret God
(London, 1963). Available online at https://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/
iranian/Mithraism/m_m/pt8.htm [last accessed 16 September 2021].
3 Translation from Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during
the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE, trans. and annotated John E. Hill
(Charleston, SC, 2009).
4 Translation by J. J. L. Duyvendak cited and emended by Homer H. Dubs in ‘A Military
Contact between Chinese and Romans in 36 B.C.’, T’oung Pao, 2nd Series, 36:1 (1940):
64–80 (at p. 64 and n. 4).
5 Translation from Joseph Needham (ed.), Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 4, pt 1
(Cambridge, 1964), p. 108.
6 From ‘Aban Yasht (Hymn to the Waters)’, trans. James Darmesteter, in Sacred Books of
the East, 23, ed. Max Müller (Oxford, 1883), p. 101.
7 Ban Gu, China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 BC – AD 23: An Annotated
Translation of Chapters 61 and 96 of The History of the Former Han Dynasty (Leiden,
1979).
8 Translation from The Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu, The Xiyu juan,
‘Chapter on the Western Regions’, from Hou Hanshu 88, trans. John E. Hill. Available
online at https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.
html#sec11 [last accessed 16 September 2021].
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