Season
Second Season
Preview
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. 7
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 5
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 635
Stratum: 14
Material: Bronze
Period: No pottery, Early Roman
Allocated to: AUAM 71.657
Notes: 5 cm. diameter approximately
Notes Reverse: Skeletal remains of two adults + one child lay in disarray over floor of loculus.
# 7 No pottery; This bracelet and Carnelian cameo (649)
# 12 Then many objects: bead (black) 680, ring 679, humerus and bracelet 667, garment needle 668, cosmetic palette and lid 669, earring fragments 670, glass tear bottle 726, cosmetic box 671, earring fragments 678, glass bowl 727, glass vases 728-744, ornament (?) of two pieces 745, nail 746, bracelet 748, necklace 749
Loculus 1 - see notes on 608
Description:
Damage shows a single wire base (approximately 2 cm. diameter); this is wrapped or coated with a material that is now white and crumbly, and made into a round bangle. Two (two five perhaps) wires are wound around body makin a spiral. Fastening appears to have center base wire overlap the others in 5 turns to complete the bangle. The body of the bangle becomes gradually narrower towards the fastening. The largest of the fastening turns measures ca. 0.75 cm. in diameter. While the opposite side of the bangle measures ca. 0.95 cm. in diameter. This bangle is probably a larger and more illustrative model for many others - in bronze with striations imitating wire twists, in glass with ridges imitating same, in silver and bronze more delicately made with only single wire.