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- ↑ Wolfgang Helck: Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs (= Probleme der Ägyptologie. Band 3). Brill, Leiden 1958, pp. 425, 528.
- ↑ E. A. Wallis Budge: Catalogue of the Egyptian Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1893, pp. 4-7 online