Season
Second Season
Preview
Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-22-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-6
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 12
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 5
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 670
Stratum: HR04
Material: Gold
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities
Notes: Largest piece: 1.96 x 1.17 cm.
Notes Reverse: 698 is 1.62 cm. but is bent and could straighten out to 1.65 - they probably are mates.
Associated Objects:
Bracelets 635, 667, 748; Carnelian cameo 649; Bead 680; Rings 679, 747; Needle 668; Cosmetic palette and lid 669; Cosmetic box 671; Glass vessels 726, 727, 728, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744; Earring fragments 678; Ornament 745, Nail 746, Necklace 749
Locus: Loculus 1 - Skeletal remains of two adults (Early Roman Tomb)
670 really looks like the mate to 698. The spere is more rounded (not as bent on the sides); the back wire is bent down as though affixed to the ear and wound around loop of same wire which is affixed to back of foil piece. Again that foil piece appears to be up behind the earring. Between the swirls and the V are two open pin dots. 698 doesn't have these open pin dots. The two hooks on the back fold up for dangles.
Two foil crushed balls don't seem to have any jewelry work on them in crushed state measure 1 x 1
Period: 63 BC - AD 130
"More ornate than 698 with coiled ends placed on a solid piece of metal. A bar-like section is present with a central dot, one on each end. Pendants may have dangled from the bar, cf. 1585. Two fragments of hollow gold-foil balls accompany the find but their relationship to earring is not clear."