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² Now certain: Koschaker *op. cit.* pp. 70, 74, 83; Robert *op. cit.* p. 146. The three complete manumissions of a slave girl give her age in every case as ‘about 30’, ὡς ἐτῶν λ’. I fear that I cannot agree with Robert that this is coincidence. It was unusual, though not unknown, to give the slave’s age in manumission documents, for nothing turned on it; there must have been a reason why the age was always given at Susa, and in my view these identical ages point to a legal fiction; if we could explain it we should know the process by which at Susa the Greeks turned dedication into manumission.