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Blackman, Middle Egyptian Stories, pp. 11:6, 15:3.

Described in “The Admonitions of Amenemhet I.” See Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, p. 137.

See A. M. Blackman, Middle Egyptian Stories (Brussels: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique, 1932), pp. 1–41; Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 1 of The Old and Middle Kingdom (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1973), pp. 222–235; and Simpson, “The Story of Sinuhe,” pp. 57–74.

Anson Rainey, “The World of Sinuhe,” Israel Oriental Studies 2 (1972), pp. 369–408.

See K. Prag, “The Intermediate Early Bronze-Middle Bronze Age: An Interpretation of the Evidence from Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon,” Levant 6 (1974), pp. 66–116; and “Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Tell Iktanu, Jordan 1989,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 34 (1990), pp. 119–130.

See R. Gophna, “The Intermediate Bronze Age,” in Amnon Ben Tor, ed., The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, translated by R. Greenberg (London and New Haven: Yale Univ. Press and the Open University of Israel, 1992), pp. 159–210; and Amihai Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000–586 B.C.E. (London: Lutterworth Press, 1990), pp. 151–173.

Alan H. Gardiner, Notes on the Story of Sinuhe (Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, Edituer, 1916).

See William Kelly Simpson, “The Story of Sinuhe” in William Kelly Simpson, ed., The Literature of Ancient Egypt, an Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 57–74.

Lafontaine-Dosogne interprets the donor image as an aristocratic family with male members to the left and female members to the right and compares the image to the princely family depicted in the Hagia Sophia in Kiev, which is contemporary to the structure at Selime (“La Kale Kilisesi de Selime et sa représentation des donateurs,” Zetesis: Album Amicorum E. de Strijcker [Antwerp/Utrecht, 1973], pp. 741–753).