Pelusium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Bernand
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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May 02, 2022 05:04 PM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727192
31.0427587, 32.5473404
- Central Point:
- OSM Location: Ancient Roman City of Pelusium (750 BC - AD 640)
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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 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)
- None
- Roman theater at Pelusium located at Pelusium (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site, port, fort, tower
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 H2 Pelusium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell el-Farama
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: 20 May 2022]
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