Historical place profile
Pelusium
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.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:727192
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:727192
- Place type
- archaeological-site, fort, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 31.042759, 32.547340
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 H2 Pelusium
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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