[5] The site includes some massive rectangular earthwork enclosures of the late Middle Kingdom or Second Intermediate Period.

[9] The Hebrew colony, which was attracted by the establishment of their national worship at Leontopolis, and which was increased by the refugees from the oppressions of the Seleucid kings in Judea, flourished there for more than three centuries afterwards.

He states that the altar was similar to Jerusalem, but that it had a single lamp of gold that hung from golden chain instead of a menorah.

[13] It has been suggested that the temple allowed women to serve as priests due to a funerary inscription reading "Marin the priestess".

Those who support this idea, or the idea that Marin had an official function in the temple that was distinct from the male priests, state that there is precedent in the Tanakh for women performing cultic functions, and that Egyptian and Greek women in Egypt took up an active priestess role, and that there was enough time for Jews associated with the Leontopolis Temple to have assimilated certain local practices by the time Marin lived.

[14] While Tell el-Yahudiya was part of the Land of Onias (the term being used on one of the epitaphs found there), it is not universally accepted as being Leontopolis, and therefore, the site of Oniad Temple.