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- ↑ The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II) by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920)
- ↑ The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II) by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920)
- ↑ Editorial Foreword The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology © 1963
- ↑ A. Dodson and S. Ikram, The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the Romans, 2008, p. 268, Thames & Hudson.