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Pelousion (Tell el-Farama)
TM Geo 1662
Egypt - 14th Lower Egyptian nome, Sethroites (?) (L14?)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located in the northeastern Delta, near the Mediterranean (TM Geo 47793) - cf. also L14? Pelousiakon Stoma (TM Geo 11131)
31.049917,32.600128 (Lat,Long)
Links: 4CARE/DEChriM, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, EDH, EDH [2], Pleiades, Syriaca, Talbert Peutinger, ToposText, Wikipedia
2 ancient authors with this ethnic
Status: city: polis; metropolis; district: nomos
Greek name(s): Πηλούσιον
Latin name(s): Pelusium
Egyptian name(s): Pr-ỉr-Ỉmn (Pȝ-ỉ.ỉr-Ỉmn)
Coptic name(s): ⲡⲉⲣⲉⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ethnic(s): Pelousiotes (Pelousiotis) - Pelousiakos - Pelusiacus - Pelousios
Modern name(s): Tell el-Farama
Variants: Pelousion (Pelusium) - Tell el-Farama - P-iir-Amon ('Whom Amon has made') - sites including Tell el-Makhzan; El-Qanais (Dibban el-Makhzan)
Repertoria: Dizionario IV, p. 120; p. 120 (1); p. 121; Suppl. 1, p. 227 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 163-164 (1); Suppl. 3, p. 125 (bis); p. 125 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 109 (1); p. 109; Suppl. 5, p. 81-82 (1); Gauthier, Dictionnaire II, 1925, p. 36; p. 58; Timm, p. 926-935
Biblio: Gardiner, JEA 10 (1924), p. 120-121; Kees, RE, 1937, col. 407-415, s.v. Pelousion 1; Bottigelli, Aegyptus 21 (1941), p. 20; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 134; Cheshire, GM 84 (1985), p. 19-24; Abd El-Maksoud / Carrez-Maratray, CRIPEL 10 (1988), p. 97-103; Abd El-Maksoud / Wagner, CRIPEL 11 (1989), p. 135-138; Guermeur, Les cultes d'Amon, 2005, p. 302-303; CDD P, 2010, p. 5; p. 69; Carrez-Maratray, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), 2012, p. 135-139; Ryholt, P. Carlsberg dem. 10, 2012, p. 150-152; CDD S, 2013, p. 81; p. 92
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 166-167 (Tell el-Farama / Pelusium); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 49 (Tell el-Farama / Pelusium); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 53 [a] (Tell el-Farama / Pelusium); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 54 (Pelusium); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 1 J4 (Pelusium); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 70 B3 (Pelusium); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 70 B3 (Pelousiakos Kolpos); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 74 H2 (Pelusium); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 74 H2 (Pelousiakos Kolpos); Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a D2 (Pelusium); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 (Pelousion); BSOAS 15 (1953), p. 28 (Pelusium); BSOAS 16 (1954), p. 212 (Pelusium); CdE 84 (2009), p. 22 fig. 2 (Péluse); JEA 39 (1953), p. 95 Vo inset (Pelusium); JJP 36 (2006), p. 19 (Pelousion); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), p. 980 ((Faramâ)); LÄ VII, 1992, map 1 (Pelusium); P. L. Bat. 21, 1981, pl. 3 (Πηλούσιον); Porter-Moss 4, 1934, pl. 1 (Tell Faramâ (Pelusium)); Pruneti, Ossirinchite, 1981, pl. inset (Pelusio); Toussoun, La géographie de l'Égypte à l'époque arabe. I. La basse Égypte, pl. 1 (Farama / Peluse); Toussoun, La géographie de l'Égypte à l'époque arabe. I. La basse Égypte, pl. 1 (Peluse [region])
Note: in I. Péluse 392 not the city, but the god Pelousios is referred to; in I. Péluse 415, 2 Pelousios is rather a personal name than an ethnic; new reading in P. Lond. 7 1930, 206 (no toponym; cf. Durand, Des Grecs en Palestine, 1997, p. 79)
