Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta: Page 19
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| Name | Location |
|
Extent | No. | Notes | Literature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sultan, K | Just W of Biyala | 31 10 50N
31 12 05E |
|
96 | Nothing but cultivated fields can be seen on satellite images of this location. | - |
| Sultan el Khadr, T | E of Simbellawein | 30 53 32N
31 38 10E |
(2006) |
343 | Italian survey 1987-8: disturbed Ptolemaic to Roman site. Late Period and Roman pottery noted by Brink. Mound mostly covered by a modern cemetery. | SCA Sharqiya register 13130057. SoE 1:25,000 series, 90/675; Chlodnicki and Fattovich in CRIPEL 14 (1992), 45-53; Brink, in MDAIK 43 (1986), 21, 24; On map in Brink, NDIT, 173. |
| Sultan Hassan, Gezira | 3km NW of Abu Kebir | 30 44 46N
31 40 22E |
|
562 | Town and modern cemetery on a gezira mound. Amsterdam University survey 1984 recorded some stratigraphy in the fields NE of the modern cemetery. NK and 3IP sherds were noted. | SoE 1:25,000 series, 89/675; Brink, MDAIK 43 (1986), 7ff; id, “The Amsterdam University Survey to the north-eastern Nile Delta (1984-1986)”, in Brink Archaeology of the Nile Delta, 65-114. |
| Suwa | SE of Saft el-Henna | 30 31 52N
31 36 57E |
|
327 | Cemetery site, dyn. 18 to Roman, worked by Petrie. Liverpool University Delta Survey 1986: sandy gezira mound used for ancient and modern cemeteries, edges being cut for fields and overbuilt by expansion of villages. SCA work 1965, 1971-2 and 1983. | SCA Sharqiya register 13040090. Garrow-Duncan in Petrie, Petrie, Hyksos and Israelite Cities, 47-51. Tyldesley Pop. Arch. July 1985, 36. For SCA work, see Leclant, Or 48 (1979), 352; Nibbi, GM 35, 43-4; Or 51 (1982), 57; Or. 54 (1985), 349 [Late tombs]; see also Or 42 (1973), 396. |
| Sweni | SE of Simbellawein | 30 48 20N
31 30 30E |
|
313 | A mud-brick enclosure of 900 x 300 m, orientated NW-SE existed here, but had already almost gone in 1902 according to Foucart. Now site of a village. | Foucart, RT 20 (1898), 162-3; ASAE 2, 51-2, fig.3. |
| Taalib, K el- | S of Dikirnis | 31 01 10N
31 34 00E |
|
158 | Unknown in Mansura SCA office, 1990. Village only on SoE 1:100,000 (1916) map. No trace on ESA 1996 1:50,000 map. Now a village. | See Foucart ASAE 2 (1901), 74. |
| Tahun, T. el- | - | - | - | - | See under Bus, T. el- (163). | SCA Sharqiya register 13190107. |
| Talluz, K | NW Delta | 31 14 11N
30 18 45E |
(2002) |
227 | Satellite imagery (2002) shows a silt mound with only a few houses on it. Advance of the cultivation has taken parts of the west and south sides of the mound. | - |
| Tamlikh, T | at Minshat Abu Omar | 30 53 28N
32 00 24E |
(2004) |
207 | Noted by Petrie in 1885 as being a small mound about 15 feet high, with a small quantity of Late Roman red bricks on the surface Extent of site in 1966 recorded as 16 feddans. | SCA Sharqiya register 13060020. Müller, in SBAW 8 (1966), 17 and Abb.9. Petrie, unpublished notes inserted into volume, Tanis I, at Edwards Library, University College London. |
| Tanah | 7km SW of Dikirnis | 31 02 10N
31 33 15E |
|
479 | Noted by Foucart west of village of Tanah, but probably extended under the town. Patches of wasteland show on both E and W of town. Granodiorite statues of Osiris and Horus, both Late Period, from here. | See Foucart RT 20 (1898), 164-5; id. ASAE 2 (1901), 74; Griffith in Naville, Mound of the Jew, 70; Daressy ASAE 30 (1930), 86ff; position of town on ESA 1996 map NH36-N1a. |
| Tanan | 19km N of Cairo | 30 14 35N
31 14 40E |
|
703 | A modern town (over an ancient site)? | SCA Qalubiya register no. 070107. |
| Tanbul, T (Tambul) | SW of Simbellawein | 30 51 05N
31 23 47E |
|
72 | Marked as huge mound on SoE 1:50000 (1908) map. In 1913 east part destroyed by sebbakhin, in some areas walls were then still in place. Site of rectangular enclosure of 4 km of pharaonic brick with Roman,Coptic and Arabic rebuilding. Details | SCA Daqahliya - Dameitta register no. 050304 (location marked erroneously as 050305 on SCA map). SoE 1:50000 1908 map. Foucart, ASAE 2 (1901), 50, 71; Daressy, ASAE 13 (1913), 185. |
| Taqala, K | N of Abu Hummus | 31 08 37N
30 17 44E |
(2006) |
370 | This site has been released by the SCA and is being developed with the construction of a waste water processing plant and sewage farm, a school and a civic rubbish dump. Details and photos. | SoE 1:100,000 (1916). Wilson, P., The West Delta Regional Survey, Beheira and Kafr el-Sheikh Provinces, 117-18, 346-8. |
| Taranis el-Arab | 4km SE of Simbellawein | 30 52 15N
31 30 15E |
|
498 | Now a village surrounded by cultivated fields. | Koms à Sebakh:11; Chlodnicki et al, CRIPEL 14 (1992), 50; see Plan 4 of Bietak, Tell ed-Daba, II. |
| Tarfaya, K el- | W edge of L Edku | 31 14 08N
30 08 26E |
|
224 | A village "Kom et-Tarfaya" is shown on the SoE 1:100,000 (1916) map with Kom ed-Dahab (iii) to the east (SCA 100158, see our no. 635). The site at Tarfaya is now under the village. Details and photos. | SoE 1:100,000 (1916).
SCA Beheira register no. 100161. Wilson, P., The West Delta Regional Survey, Beheira and Kafr el-Sheikh Provinces, 71-7. |
| Tarha, T el- | ESE of Dikirnis | 31 03 40N
31 41 30E |
|
159 | On SoE 1916 map, but absent from ESA 1996 1:50,000 map. Only cultivated fields now show on satellite images of this location (2004). | SoE 1:100,000 (1916). |
| Tawahin Ikrash Area | 6.5km NE of Diarb Nigm | 30 46 22N
31 31 47E |
(2005) |
661 | A very small residual mound in cultivated land. There is a modern cemetery on a mound 80m to the north. | SCA Sharqiya register 13170070 (as Mantiqat Tawahin Ikrash). |
| Tawil, El K el- | W of Minuf | 30 30 03N
30 49 07E |
|
37 | A oval shape in the field pattern, visible on satellite images (2005), with a small modern cemetery on its west side, may indicate the former outline of the mound. See the Google Earth presentation from the Index page. | - |
| Tawil, K el- | NE of Kafr es-Sheikh | 31 11 54N
31 05 26E |
|
304 | SCA excavations in 1967 found Roman pottery and brick conduits. An extensive oval mound in the middle of the town of the same name. Mound totally covered by a modern cemetery and continues eastwards below the town. | - |
| Tawil, T el- | E of Simbellawein | 30 53 00N
31 36 30E |
|
180 | Italian survey 1987-8: suggested this location just a geomorphological feature, not an ancient site. The area is now all cultivated. | Chlodnicki and Fattovich in CRIPEL 14 (1992), 50. |
| Tawila, Gezira el- | SE of Dahtamun | 30 39 43N
31 44 02E |
|
537 | Amsterdam University survey 1894-5: Long narrow sandy strip, the S part covered by village of Ez. el-Sayed Gad and its cemetery. GR cemetery site. Details | SCA Sharqiya register 13120014. SoE 1:25,000 series, 880/675; PM IV, 10; Brink, MDAIK 43 (1986), 7ff., 23. |
| Tellein | 14km S of T. Muqdam | 30 33 30N
31 21 36E |
|
521 | The village of El-Tellein was included in the Friedman-Buck survey of 1992. Several finds of antiquities have been made in the town. Details | Friedman and Buck, forthcoming. |
| Temai el Amdid | S of Mansura | 30 56 20N
31 31 00E |
|
179 | Major site not part of this survey
Ancient Thmuis. Rectangular enclosure in NE called Khoronfish with much fired brick construction. Ruins of Coptic church. American work in 1960s. SCA excavations continuing in 1990s. A mission from the University of Hawaii began work in 2008 and found remains of a Greek-style temple of Ptolemy II and Queen Arsinoe. |
SCA Daqahliya - Dameitta register no. 050312. Daressy ASAE 13 (1913), 183-4; Ochsenslager 1967. See bibliography for Mendes here. |
| Thufiya, T el- | SE of Dikirnis | 30 59 14N
31 38 43E |
|
170 | Italian survey 1987: A Late Roman mound with Red Slip Wares, coins and glass. Cut to a triangular shape by advancing fields. Clear of overbuilding, set in the cultivation on satellite images. | SCA Daqahliya - Dameitta register no. 050207. SoE 1:25,000 series, 91/675; See Chlodnicki in Bull. GIECE 13, 25; Chlodnicki and Fattovich in CRIPEL 14 (1992), 45-53.; id., map in Brink, NDIT, 173. |
| Tibn, K el- | NE of Biyala | 31 22 44N
31 20 35E |
2005 |
127 | The area in has been drained and developed. Some small residual patches of the site are visible on satellite images, being used for settlement and industry. One plot shows signs of SCA test trenches. | SoE 1:100,000 (1916). |
| Tibn, K el- | SW of Abu Hummus | 30 56 58N
30 14 56E |
200 x 100m |
426 | The mound appears on satellite imagery (2002) as a remnant of one end, with a square-cut section removed and levelled to agriculture. The rest is clear of any modern building but at extreme risk. | SCA Beheira register no. 100235. SoE 1:100,000 (1916). |
| Tibni, K el- | N of Biyala | 31 13 57N
31 12 27E |
|
108 | Satellite imagery shows the mound clear of buildings except for a few houses along the east side. There is a canal on the west. | SCA Kafr es-Sheikh register no. 090114 (marked 4km too far north on the SCA map?). |
| Tin, K el- | NW of Biyala | 31 21 55N
31 01 12E |
(2005) |
122 | Satellite imagery (2005) shows the N half of the low mound still extant and clear. The S half and all the surrounding area has been converted to fish-farms. | SCA Kafr es-Sheikh register no. 090115. |
| Tinnis, T | In Menzala | 31 12 02N
32 14 05E |
(2006) |
153 | Coptic and Islamic city-site. Some of the major street lines visible. Alison Gascoigne began a survey of the mound in May 2000. Details | Munier, ASAE 18 (1918), 72-4; ESA
1996 1:50,000 map NH36-N2a.
Gascoigne, A., "The Medieval City of Tinnis", in EA 22 (Spring 2002), 25-7. |
| Tubgi, El- | 5.5km S of Abu Kebir | 30 40 13N
31 40 00E |
|
681 | A few houses, gardens and a cemetery on a reduced mound. | SCA Sharqiya register 13050076. |
| Tubul, K et- | S of Damanhur | 30 51 24N
30 25 24E |
|
446 | Surrounded by fields, this tell has no modern settlement upon or adjacent to it. The topography is relatively even, and the surface is covered in halfa-grass. Details and photo. | SCA Beheira register no. 100202. SoE 1:100,000 (1916). On sketch map by Coulson, in Brink, Archaeology of the Nile Delta, 260. |
| Tukh el Qaramus | SW of Abu Kebir | 30 40 54N
31 38 27E |
(2006) |
196 | Liverpool University Delta Survey 1983-4: large areas remain free of modern structures. Visible brick foundation of temple of Philip Arrhidaeus. Also Amsterdam University survey 1984-5. Details | SCA Sharqiya register 13050093. SoE 1:25,000
series, 88/675.
Tyldesley, Pop. Arch. July 1985, 33. |
| Tukh, T | N of Mehalla | 31 08 49N
31 07 20E |
(2004) |
88 | A small mound, partly occupied by a modern cemetery on the north-west side. The edges have been cut by advancing fields. | - |
| Turuga, K | W of Damanhur | 30 57 47N
30 10 28E |
|
303 | Identified as Psenemphaia. Described by Hogarth in his report of 1895 to the EEF (see P. Spencer reference opposite). A Graeco-Roman site with some surviving stone and brick foundations from substantial architecture. Details and photos. | SCA Beheira register no. 100251. P Spencer, in Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honour of H S Smith (EES 1999), 305, 308-11. |
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