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A round pool for a water god
Top image: Aerial view of the circular basin at the newly discovered water temple in Pelusium. Source: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

A round pool for a water god

Pelusium, North Sinai. 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD. Greece and Rome. Debated. Free

No statue of the god was found.

Debated. A round brick pool was later read as a temple for the mud god Pelusius.

The place is Tell El-Farama, the old city of Pelusium, in North Sinai, Egypt. The pool is about 35 metres across and was joined to a branch of the Nile. The page says the building was used from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD. At first only part of a round red-brick structure showed, and it was taken for a meeting hall. A square platform in the middle may have held a statue. The god's name comes from a Greek word for mud.

The page shows that the building's job was argued, then called sacred.

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