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- ↑ Nozomu Kawaiː The Administrators and Notables in Nubia under Tutankhamun, in Richard Jasnow and Kathlyn M. Cooney (eds), Joyful in Thebes: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Betsy M. Bryan, Atlanta: Lockwood, 2015, ISBN 9781937040406, 318-21
- ↑ John Coleman Darnell and Abd el-Hakim Haddad: A Stela of the Reign of Tutankhamun from the Region of Kurkur Oasis, in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 31 (2003), 73-91