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Pelusium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand

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

Last modified Jun 22, 2020 04:16 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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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

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:

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)
al-Faramā (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 632 - AD 1516)
aṭ-Ṭina (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
aṭ-Ṭīna (Modern Standard Arabic)
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:

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, Jonathan Fu, Ryan Horne, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Pelusium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192> [accessed: 03 July 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192 |title=Places: 727192 (Pelusium) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=July 3, 2020 7:18 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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