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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-6-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area D
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 6
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 77
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 33c
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 934
Stratum: 03
Material: Bronze
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine body sherds
Allocated to: AUAM 71.360
Notes: Approximately 6.2 cm. diameter; 9.1 cm. long; 0.4 cm. thick, flat side
Quite corroded
Notes Reverse: Layer "C" Ayyubid/Mamluk
944-53 Arabic coin - lots of them; 932 Arrowhead; 931 Iron knife; 933 Signet ring
AUSS XI p. 101
D.6 : 33 - Cistern (20,900 gal.), Roman date for construction, if not before; last use Late Arabic (Islamic); Nine distinct layers
40 pails of sherds: dominant Ayyubid/Mamluk, Umayyad, Early Byzantine, Late + Early Roman, late Iron III
Over 100 objects - 7 complete ceramic vessels, glass lamp, 35 coins [mostly Umayyad, Ayyubid/Mamluk], 11 heads, 10 clay ball weights, 7 arrowheads, 6 rings, 3 bracelets, 3 knives, a number of bricks, nails, olive pits + eggshells, needle, button, sickle, key, spike, loom weight, trapping, wooden handle in metal sheath, part of stone column.