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imagery of 2005 shows a group of four small mounds south of the village,
the largest itself occupied by some housing, the other three clear. The
most easterly mound has been reduced to a square shape by advance of the
cultivation and measures only 70 x 50m.
See Wilson, P., The West Delta Regional Survey, Beheira and Kafr el-Sheikh Provinces, 82-4, 320-4; id., 2010, 123-4 Visited by Penny Wilson in 2004, who reported as follows: There may be some confusion in the naming of some of the sites here as there is also an Abdu Basha (i) site listed by the SCA as 100147 (our no. 621). The site we visited is now a sprawling area with several distinct zones covering an area of about 370m (east-west maximum) and 170m (north-south). It has been cut into by the villages here and will not survive much longer. The main archaeological area is a high mound of around 8m whose southern and northern faces have been cut away to form sheer sections. The southern sections shows sandy brick walls, pottery deposits and human burials in both pottery coffins and brick vaults. Bones of adults and children can be seen falling out of the section and on top of the mound. This looks like a reuse of the abandoned town mound. On the east side there is a substantial mud brick wall. Within the village there is a bath-house which has been restored recently and more bath-like chambers can be seen on a sandy area to the east of the village and main mound. A further sandy area lying to the east and a patch of extensive low scrub on the north-east of the village presumably will not survive and will be built over in the near future. One of the above bath-like
structures is in fact part of a wine-production facility, of which three
were noted in the survey by Mohamed Kennawi in 2009 (see Bibliography under
Kennawi).
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Photographs
from a larger collection, taken by Penny Wilson in 2004. Copies of others
are kept at the EES London Office.
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