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- ↑ Jacques de Morgan, Urbain Bouriant, Georges Legrainː Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Egypte antique. Première série, Haute Egypte. Tome premier, de la frontière de Nubie à Kom Ombos, 1894, pl. 21, no. 41 and 31, no. 10 online
- ↑ Herman de Meulenaere: Contributions à la prosopographie du moyen empire, in BIFAO 81.1 (1981), pp. 77-79 online