Excavations in progress in 1996 by Chief Inspector Atef Abu el-Dahap of Damietta office: revealed Late Roman mud-brick and fired-brick buildings, including a large bath-house with fired brick wells and conduits, and some drains of linked amphorae. Walls of large square buildings visible as surface traces in the south part of mound. Pottery of Late Roman/ Coptic and early Islamic periods, from 1st to 12th centuries AD. Some burials with Greek inscriptions on thin gold foil. Few pieces of re-used Ptolemaic masonry with hieroglyphs, but might have been brought from elsewhere. Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey no. 320.
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