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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-3-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-10
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. n/a
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 7 - Sarcophagus 1
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 873
Stratum: 11
Material: Iron
Period: Late Roman
Allocated to: AUAM 71.310
Notes: 1 = 8.1 cm.; 1 = 4.2 cm.
Badly corroded, no apparent design
Notes Reverse: L. L.
Sarcophagus - grave contents badly disturbed
871 Ring; 872 Buckle; 873 Bracelet fragments
AUSSXI p. 122 "Chamber Tombs with Arcosolia."
T10 "A large chamber cut into bedrock at eastern end of Tomb F.8 was not recognized as a separate tomb until much of the soil had been cleared from interior." Central chamber with three Arcosolia. Two contained the completed trough graves. Also two recesses which may have been additions to accommodate later burials. Robbers in antiquity.
"The tomb itself dates to the very end of the Late Roman period, based on pottery recovered."
"In the four trough graves in the northern and western arcosolia the robbers had left only fragmented boxes and two belt buckles, a ring, an iron bracelet, a gold lunate earring (1002), a broken alabaster case, + a few beads. Two of the trough graves of the eastern arcosolium, however, were intact, while the third grave of that same group had been violated." From these....two glass vases, a small bell + clapper, juglet + various small beads.