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- ↑ K.A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions: Merenptah & the late Nineteenth Dynasty, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003
- 1 2 3 4 Dodson, Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty, American University in Cairo Press, 2010
- ↑ Aidan Dodson, Messuy, Amada, and Amenmesse, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 34 (1997), pp. 41-48, Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40000797
- ↑ Rolf Krauss, Untersuchungen zu König Amenmesse: Nachträge, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 24 (1997), pp. 161-184, Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152736
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