Site description:
The site had originally been examined by Georges Daressy in 1898 who wanted to identify the site as Dionysias, however inscriptions recovered by the British excavations in 1901 refute this.
Type of site:
Town
Timeframe:
Town (Graeco-Roman Period)
Excavation season:
Relevant publications:
Daressy, Georges 1900. Rapport sur el-Yaouta (Fayoum). Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 1, 44-47.