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- ↑ Annie Gasse, Vincent Rondot: Les inscriptions de Séhel, Cairo 2007 ISBN 978-2-7247-0434-1, pp. 158-159, no. SEH 264
- ↑ Labib Habachi: Königssohn von Kusch, in: W. Helck, W. Westendorf (editors): Lexikon der Ägyptologie, III, Wiesbaden 1980 ISBN 3-447-02100-4, 632
- ↑ Wolfgang Helck: Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, Heft 18, Berlin 1956, pp. 1635-1637 (list of all monuments) online