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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-13-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-1
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 19
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 2
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 1061
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Bronze
Period: Early Roman, Late Roman
Allocated to: AUAM 71.429
Notes: 1.77 cm.
Some kind of clasp, twisted wire circle; wire twists below in straight form, one wire protruding.
Smaller version of "eye" in "hook + eye" clasp.
Cf. 1159
Made with two wires.
Cf. 1170 (a silver earring fragment and gold clasp eye, two twisted wires. T.10 (Late Roman))
Notes Reverse: Immediate: 1060 Pin head fragment
See card 999
Clasp:
Cf. Petrie, Obj. D. U., Pl. VI: 75
Macalister, Gezer, Pl. CXII: 2; CXXXV: 29
Tell en-Nasbeh, Pl. 112: 5
Heshbon 1170, 1159