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Pelusium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors: R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, jfu, Ryan Horne, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified May 02, 2022 05:04 PM
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.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192

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    • Pelousion (English, modern)
    • 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)
    • Tall al-Fāramā (From GANE None, modern)
    • Tell el-Farma (Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
    • al-Faramā (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 632 - AD 1516)
    • aṭ-Ṭina (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
    • aṭ-Ṭīna (Modern Standard Arabic)
    • pr-jmn (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, unspecified date range)
    • sjnw (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
    • snw (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
    • śnw (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, 2670 BC - 2168 BC)
    None

settlement, archaeological site, port, fort, tower (deprecated)

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 H2 Pelusium

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell el-Farama


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A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, jfu, Ryan Horne, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Pelusium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192> [accessed: 14 July 2025] 

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