Naville visited the site briefly "in the hope that the fallaheen might perchance have found some monument. The son of the sheikh gave me a fragment of a standing statue, of the time of the Saites".
Naville, Edouard and F. Ll. Griffith 1890. The mound of the Jew and the city of Onias: Belbeis, Samanood, Abusir, Tukh el Karmus. 1887 / The antiquities of Tell el Yahûdîyeh, and miscellaneous work in Lower Egypt during the years 1887-1888. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 7. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner.
Naville, Edouard 1892. The festival-hall of Osorkon II. in the great temple of Bubastis (1887-1889). Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 10. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co
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