TANBUL, T.  [72]

Marked as huge mound on the SoE 1:50000 1908 map. In 1913 east part destroyed by sebbakhin, in some areas walls were still in place. Site of rectangular enclosure of 4 km of pharaonic brick with Roman,Coptic and Arabic rebuilding. West part village and cemetery with two vats of limestone poorly quarried. Cemetery in north. Enclosure wall largely composed of earth-fill casemate. Two areas of ruins according to the Description map. Finds: Block of Ramesses II; fragments of Saite tomb from sebakh.

Additional references See Koms à Sebakh 12; Jomard 1802:284; Foucart, ASAE 2 (1901), 50, 71; Daressy, ASAE 13 (1913), 185; Edgar ASAE 22 (1922), 5 note 5; Bietak Tell ed-Daba, II, 110.