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- ↑ Adela Oppenheim: Identifying artists in the time of Senusret III. The mastaba of the vizir Nebit (North Mastaba 18) at Dahshur, in M. Barta, F. Coppens, and J. Krejčŕ (editors), Abusir und Saqqara in the Year 2005, Prague 2006, 123, note 28