Season
Second Season
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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-21-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-6
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 2
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 2
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 608
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Iron
Period: 6th-7th, Byzantine, Early Roman
Allocated to: AUAM 71.157
Notes: 1 = 4 cm.; 1 = 4.7 cm.; 1 = 3.4 cm.
b appears to have wire twisted around supposed ends.
Difficult to distinguish
Notes Reverse: Associated Objects:
596 cosmetic applicator; 598 Roman cooking pot, 607 spoon (?); 610 Roman jug; 611 bowl fragment; 612 bowl; 613 lamp fragment; 614a bead; 615 button; 616 coin; 617 bead; 618 bead; 619 bead; 620 button; 621 hair needle fragment; 641 bracelet; 642-5 needle fragments; 597 nail; 682 finger ring; 683 iron ring; 729 glass vase
F:6:2 Locus List:
Top layer of loose dirt within central tomb chamber
AUSS XI pp. 117-8
F:6 Chamber tomb with loculi - square and loculi on 3 sides; 3 steps, doorway sealed with flat dressed stone
Square chamber was typical of Early Roman; 9 loculi; some niches with Herodian lamps.
Plundered long ago yet skeletal remains, pottery, glassware; corpse ritual - throwing dirt => loose soil; dirty layer Byzantine. So: Early Roman tomb looted in time when pottery and glassware were not considered valuable, then resealed during Byzantine period by pious individual or government decree.
Loculus - 1 - had skeletons of 5 adults. Each of other loculi had one or more.
Contents:
Bracelets, one on humerus 667 from loc. 1, finger rings, glass beads, garment needles, buttons, a small scarab charm, a gaming piece, part of a wooden coffin, and nails.
Most exciting finds were from loose soil at opening of Loc. 1. Eleven (11) glass vases, bronze spatula, glass cosmetic applicator, cosmetic box of shell (ivory lid, swans neck, wings, tail).