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- ↑ Michel Baud: Famille Royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 1, 1999, Bibliothèque d'étude 126/1 (in French). Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale. ISBN 978-2-7247-0250-7. See p. 270.
- ↑ William Kelly Simpson: The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II
- 1 2 "Giza7000". euler.slu.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- ↑ M. Baud ibid, p. 304, also tome 2 num. 180.
- ↑ Giza archives Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine