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Tagslake-moeris
6 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian
Eastern lake harbour of Karanis at Kom Aushim — 55 m granary pier at –0.5 m on Moeris shore.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE – 250 CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Eastern isthmus harbour of Soknopaiou Nesos at Dime — 50 m causeway quay at –1 m and isthmus basin.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Byzantine (2000 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic
Southern lake approach of Narmouthis at Medinet Madi — 45 m dromos quay and 70 m basin.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Late Antique (3200 BCE – 600 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum canal capital — Bahr Yussef harbour 300x100 m now desert sebkha 3 km from shrunken Lake Moeris (40,000 papyri).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (305 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian / Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum island harbour — Soknopaios crocodile temple dromos 400 m to lake harbour 200x100 m now 2 km from receded Birket Qarun.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE – 5th c. CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Egyptian / Roman
Fayum Lake Moeris granary port — Ptolemy II polder city whose lake quays now 2 m buried as Lake Qarun fell 20 m.
