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by J. and P. Spencer in January 1990: A large tell, deeply cut for sebakh
leaving isolated high areas of hard earth and mud brick. Parts of massive
brick walls are exposed, which in their thicknesses and pan-bedded courses
have some characteristics of temple enclosure walls of the Late Period.
Alternatively, they may have belonged to tower-houses of the Ptolemaic
Period. The site is littered with fired bricks, with some exposed building
traces of the same material. Red granite Roman column drum and pieces of
weathered limestone on the surface. Late Roman sherds. There is a large
village on eastern edge of the site, with an unpaved road across the tell.
Mentioned by Hogarth in 1904.
Mapped by Patricia & Jeffrey Spencer for the Delta Survey in 2011 - see photographs from 2001 here.
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Photographs
taken 1990 © Patricia & Jeffrey Spencer
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