LUGGA, T.EL-  [335]

 
 

A Late Roman site, partly disturbed. Tell isolated in plain, oval of alluvial silt and covered with dense vegetation. Satellite images from 2007 show the mound still some 380m long and clear of any overbuilding. The south side has been cut straight by advance of the culticvation. Italian survey 1987-8: Late Roman red slip bowls, lids, amphorae, bowls of dull red ware with chaff and sand temper, glass, bronze, slag, bronze coins. SCA Daqahliya - Dameitta register gives the name as Tell el-Lahieh, through misreading of Arabic letter gim. Unpublished source: Fattovich, Report of 1987 Field Season, (unpub. MS), 12.