Tell Nabasha

8mi/13km southeast of Tanis is Tell Nabasha (also known as Tell Faraun and Tell Bedawi), a rubble mound which contains the remains of the ancient Egyptian Yemet. The site was excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1886, revealing the remains of a temple apparently built by Ramesses II and other Ramessids, using stone from earlier buildings, and a temple dedicated by Amasis to the local goddess Buto. In the cemetery were found Egyptian tombs of the 19th Dynasty and the tombs of Cypriot mercenaries who were stationed here in the reign of Amasis. Southeast of the temple precinct are the scanty remains of a town of the Graeco Roman period.