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- ↑ Porter, B. and Moss R.L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings: The Theban Necropolis, Part One: Private Tombs. Second Edition. Griffith Institute. Oxford. 1994
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- ↑ G. Steindorff, Aniba II, 1937 p.25 pl 12 No 43
- ↑ Cathie Spieser, Les noms du Pharaon comme êtres autonomes au Nouvel Empire,(OBO, 174) Friburg/Göttingen 2000, 191, 295 No 28.