TELL DIBGU, T.  [167]

 
 

Noted by Petrie in 1885 as being entirely Late Roman on the surface (unpublished sketch-map and notes inserted into volume, Tanis I, at Edwards Library, University College London). A large dusty mound located close to the road which runs along the north side of the Ramses Drain. The low parts of the mound at the north and SW have been cut for fish-farms; at the south and SE are fields with crops. The mound has a high central part surrounded by extensive low and sandy areas, particularly wide at the west. The surface is covered with fired bricks, ceramic slag and fragments of glass. There are a few pieces of limestone and quartzite. Very few traces of building-lines are visible, only a few rectangular shapes on the low ground at the north were noted. Nothing earlier than the Graeco Roman Period was seen, and the site resembles some of the large Roman mounds of Kafr es-Sheikh. Surface sherds were rarely visible owing to the deep and soft dust. Access: Take the road which runs along the southerly side of the Ramses Drain. This road can be accessed from the San el Hagar end or from its junction with the road beside the El-Salam canal (from the latter direction the first part of the road is not surfaced). The asphalt of the road was considerably broken up when the site was visited by Jeffrey & Patricia Spencer in November 2001. The mound is clearly visible form the road and one dirt-track connects to it through the agriculture (track to east of a blue house, turn left at end, then right over canal bridge on to the tell). View from the high core looking south

Photographs taken in November 2001   © Patricia & Jeffrey Spencer Dirt-track to the site from the road by the Ramses Drain From the summit looking north, showing the low sandy expanse View from the south edge of the mound