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Pelusium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand

Contributors: R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified Jan 03, 2017 10:22 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Pelusium was a fortified ancient city located at the mouth of the eastern-most branch of the Nile river. Its ruins, now land-locked and located approximately 30km southeast of Port Said, are known as Tell Farama.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.049917, 32.600128

Locations:

DARMC location 25595 (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Πηλούσιον (Pelousion: Ancient Greek, 540 BC - AD 650)
Pelusium (750 BC - AD 640)
Peremoun (Coptic, AD 300 - AD 640)
Sin (Canaanite, 540 BC - 330 BC)
Tall al-Farama (304 BC - AD 640)
Tall al-Faramā (Modern Standard Arabic, 2670 BC - AD 640)
Tall al-Fāramā (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
al-Faramā (Modern Standard Arabic, 1200 BC - AD 1516)
aṭ-Ṭina (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
aṭ-Ṭīna (Modern Standard Arabic, 2010 BC - 1086 BC)
pr-jmn (Ancient Egyptian, unspecified date range)
sjnw (Ancient Egyptian, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
snw (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
śnw (Ancient Egyptian, 2670 BC - 2168 BC)

Pelusium makes connections with:

None

Pelusium receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, port, fort, tower

References:

See Further:

Related:

TM GEO ID 1662

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 H2 Pelusium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell el-Farama

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Suggested citation:
A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Pelusium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192> [accessed: 21 April 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192 |title=Places: 727192 (Pelusium) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=April 21, 2018 5:24 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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