Francis W. Kelsey and the Near East Expedition of 1919-1920


Country: Egypt

City: Fayoum

Accession No.: 7.351

Date:April 28, 1920

Photographer: George R. Swain

Caption: Ahnasia (also spelled Ehnassieh). View from top of first mound near village, looking toward large mound in the process of excavation. Height about 40 feet. (Ahnasia is really in the Nile valley, and not the Fayoum proper, but is close by.) Palms at left, camels for carrying a sebbakh at the right. Roman name, Heracleoplis Magna.