Artefacts of Excavation

Alternative site names:
Batn Ihrit

Timeframe:
Town (Ptolemaic and Roman Period) Temple (Ptolemaic and Roman Period)

Site description:

The site is located near the modern town of Harit and is comproised of larger houses that the excavators noted at the time were sometimes preserved for at least the first storey. The town seems to have been active from the Ptolemaic period till the 4th century. At the west of the town was an extensive cemetery used from the early Ptolemaic to the late Roman period.