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by Penny Wilson for the EES in 2002. The mound rises to a series of high
points, of which the highest is some 15m above the surrounding land. The
main central mound and the smaller western one both show building outlines
on the surfaces. Some areas have been cleared to reveal small rectangular
red brick foundations. Three were seen in 2002, of regular size over different
parts of the site. The mound is red in colour and covered with pottery,
glass and brick. Both N and S sides have rain gullies in which larger pottery
fragments were revealed. The site was has been worked by an expedition
from the Universita Degli Studi di Roma (La Sapienza) since 2002, which
has excavated some substantial mud brick buildings of Ptolemaic to Roman
date. The site is also noted for some well-preserved fired-brick water
cisterns belonging to Late Roman times. By the seventh century AD the site
had been abandoned.
See reports of the
Italian excavations here
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Photographs
from a larger selection taken by Penny Wilson in 2004. Copies of others
are at the EES office.
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