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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-29-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area C
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 4
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 282
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 51
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 833
Stratum: BA02 (06)
Material: Glass
Allocated to: AUAM 71.285
Notes: Corroded with iron; from infant burial.
Whitish thick layer flakes off to reveal porous sponge-holed silvery layer.
IX. D. 2. b. (Square perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 1.3; Diameter: 1.08
"Flush stratified eye" decorations, one on each surface; Beck, p. 64
Folded cane (around wire) or just a crack?
Notes Reverse: Guido, p. 6 "(3) 'Eye' : Generally surrounded by a ring or rings different in colour from the body colour of the bead."
p. 8 Pressed "while still half molten the incipient bead is pressed into hexagonal or square or biconical shapes."