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- ↑ Walter W. Müller (ed.) / Hermann von Wissmann: History of Saba' II. The great empire of the Sabaeans until its end in the early 4th century BC. (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class., Session Reports, Volume 402) Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, 1982 ISBN 3700105169 (to Sumuhu'ali Yanuf II: pp. 219-224)
- ↑ Qataban, historie.
- ↑ Répertore d'Epigraphie Sémitique : 4814.