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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-29-1968
Descriptor Level A
Area C
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 1
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 40
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 1
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 69
Stratum: 02
Material: Faience and Glass
Period: Possibly Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Allocated to: AUAM 68.108
Notes: Black with gray striations; 2.5 Y 8/6 "yellow"; coming off (painted)
Black mottled (bead), 3 gray-yellow dots on it
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
See Beck on Spot Beads, pp. 42 + 63
One of the "simplest form(s) of eye bead"; "one or more large spots of colored glass attached to a matrix of another color"; "left standing above the surface of the matrix" (Beck, p. 63)
Raised spot Eye bead XLCI. A. 2. a.
cf. Fig. 56, Egypt, XVIII th Dynasty.