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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-2-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area D
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 5
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 41
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 5f
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 862
Stratum: 03
Material: Bronze
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) dominant, few Roman, 6 tesserae
Allocated to: AUAM 71.302
Notes: 7.5 cm. diameter
Definite regular wire twists; flattened ends but wire twists; composed of two wires?
Bracelet or possible Armlet
Notes Reverse: Similar to Tell en Nasbeh I, pl. 112: 7, 8, 9 + p. 303 (I2, Byzantine)?
Lachish IV2, pl. 25: 37?
Cracked silt layer on East floor of cistern under dirt pile that had been spilled through opening.
912 coin; 846 stone weight; 863 bent iron nail
AUSS XI p. 98
Cistern capacity 60,600 gallons! Once a natural caul. Floors + walls completely plastered covering floor was uniform depth layer of dark gray silt, "obviously having settled through water during use, but now dried + cracked into large chunks;"
5 distinct soil layers on Eastern end - contained 23 pails of sherds (predominantly Ayyubid/Mamluk, but also Umayyad, Early Byzantine, + Roman), 25 coins (All Ayyubid + Mamluk except # 53 which is of Pontius Pilate 29/30 AD), five nails, four rings, two weights, two hooks, grappling anchor, bracelet (862), glass bead, flint knife, column fragment. Cistern date - Construction Umayyad, cleaned out Ayyubid/Mamluk.