Site of the ancient city of Imet, consisting of three areas: the temple site, the town, and the cemetery. Former name Tell Nebesheh. Much of temple area clear, but some new buildings have been constructed on the mound. The naos of the small temple, photographed by Petrie relatively intact, is now reduced to a few fragments of granite (picture). The Third Intermediate Period and Late Period cemetery is overbuilt by Husseiniya town and has been the subject of many years of excavation by the SCA. Older graves of the New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Archaic Period have been found. Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey no. 187.
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