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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-10-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-1
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 13
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 2 - Quadrant B
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 999
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Iron
Period: 6-7th, Early Roman, few Late Roman
Allocated to: AUAM 71.393
Notes: 4.2 cm. diameter; 5 cm. long
Heavy corrosion; no visible decoration
Infant's anklet?
Notes Reverse: Immediate: 1040 pottery juglet, 1057 ceramic pottery
958 ring, 996 hairpin fragment, 997 ring, 998 inlay fragments, 1000 bracelet, 1041 hair needle fragment, 1058 button, 1059 ring fragment, 1060 pin head fragment, 1061 bracelet clasp, 1157 bracelet, 1158 earring fragment, 1159 bracelet, 1160 hair needle fragment, 1161 hair needle fragment, 1162 beads, 1163 bracelet fragments, 1164 bracelet, 1165 button, 1166 button fragment, 1167 beads, 1198 bead, 1199 bead, 1220 ring, 1221 bracelet, 1222 bell fragment, 1208 bead
T.1 Chamber tomb with loculi, Type 1 AUSS XI p. 115
The Rolling Stone Tomb: from chamber radiated 12 loculi, 4 each on North, East, and South. Closure - Early Roman up to 70 AD, moveable door allowed for sequential multiple burials; family sepulcher. Skeletons scattered, 77 individuals buried there; recently looted; but some beads, rings, bracelets, and bone hairpins.