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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-20-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-5
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 3
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 4
Description
N.B.: There are two cards associated with this series of objects. Only the front of 1 is pictured. First card (Front and Back) have descriptions for beads a-n. Second card (Front and Back) have descriptions for beads o-v. There are not 51 individuals descriptions, only 22 distinct lines.
Obj. Reg. No. 1211
Stratum: HR02 (12)
Allocated to: AUAM 71.511
Notes: a) IV. C. 1. a. (Lenticular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.85; Diameter: 0.9
Glass, Lapis blue. [Nearest, 5 PB 3/2]
b) I. D. 1. g. ( (Circular perimeter, Long, Pear-shaped profile) (Beck, 1928).
Wound bead; Length: 1.15; Diameter: 0.65
Glass, Lapis blue
c) XXII. B. 2. b. - Drop pendants, plain drops with rounded ends or rings for suspension. (Beck, 1928)
Length: 1.5; Diameter: 0.83
Glass, amber translucent [2.5 Y 5/4 nearest]
d) XXVI. B. 2. g. - Pomegranate, but bottom is not notched. (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.77; Diameter: 0.61
Glass, greyish-brown [2.5 Y 5/2 "grayish brown"]
e) XXVI. B. 2. g. - Similar to "d" above but larger. Bottom is relatively smaller and is not notched. (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.95; Diameter: 0.9
Glass, amber translucent [2.5 Y 5/6 "light olive brown"]
f) XXXIII - Bird bead cf. 1209; 2.5 Y 5/6 "Light olive brown"
Length of Fragment: 1.12 but same size as 1209
Fragment - head + breast only; the value is that the beak on this specimen is present and may help to identify real bird from which these are copied.
Fabrication "re-heated & reworked"
g) I. B. 1. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.8; Diameter: 0.95; Perforation: 0.37
Black and brown speckles on yellow background; 2.5 Y 7/4; Material - clay? Glass?
Perforation Type: VIa
h) IX. D. 2. b. (Square perimeter, Long, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.72; Diameter: 0.5
Corners cut off, make side diamond
Glass, translucent lapis blue
i) XXII. B. 2. b. - Plain drop pendant with rings for suspension (Beck, 1928)
Length: 1.23; Diameter: 0.71
Glass, when wet, a reddish brown color, near 2.5 YR 3/8
j) I. D. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Long, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.9; Diameter: 0.5
Perforation Type: VII (Tubular)
Dark gray material with brown flecks
k) Eleven or twelve beads of similar size, shape, fabric, and color.
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.33; Diameter: 0.82 (largest) to Length: 0.26; Diameter: 0.65 (Smallest)
Material - probably glass, black flakes over a silvery base; fragments easily.
S. Goldstein - Fabrication by mold or wound, badly decomposed
l) Decomposed, Dark gray
Length: 0.3; Diameter: 0.46; Perforation: clogged
I. B. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
m) Nine beads of similar size, shape, fabric, and color
I. B. 2. e. (Circular perimeter, Short, Bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.35; Diameter: 0.65 (largest) - Length: 0.24; Diameter: 0.5 (smallest)
Glass, amber-colored, decomposing, 2.5 Y 7/6 "yellow"
n) Six beads of similar size, shape, fabric, and color. Two are affixed together resembling a "multiple" bead type, perhaps are "collared."
All are gadrooned, like melon beads, but are much smaller than the characteristic melon from Heshbon, and are lack. The gadroon ribs differ in thickness. The best representative: Length: 0.51; Diameter: 0.52; Perforation: 0.18
Perforation Type: VIa, about 12 fine gadroons.; Dark gray glass [N/3]
I. C. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
o) Irregular black glass, perhaps an abnormal, n.
Length: 0.65; Diameter: 0.63
Division IV irregular
p) I. C. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.66; Diameter: 0.65; Perforation: 0.23; Type: VIa
Glass, milky grey with brown stripes parallel with perforation.
There is a circular indentation making a convex "side" of this bead - perhaps a mishap during manufacture.
q) Highly unusual, two beads affixed, two perforations.
Top bead - Length: 0.36; Diameter: 0.58
II. C. 1. c. (Elliptical, Standard, Convex Cone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Bottom bead - Length: 1.72; Diameter: 0.42
I. D. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Long, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation Type: VII (Tube)
Material - shiny black glass; bottom bead is ribbed with fine white spirals
r) IX. D. 2. b. (Square perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 2.14; Diameter: 0.49
Glass, 2.5 Y 7/8; "yellow" translucent, silvery material lining perforation?
An unusually long bead, one side has remains of two blobs of glass - perhaps broken off bead as in "q" or remains of glass when made. One end has slight collar.
s) XIII. C. 2. b. (Hexagonal perimeter, Standard, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.5; Diameter: 0.49
Glass, green, translucent, 5 G 5/6 "Moderate green"
One end is chipped.
t) I. C. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.63; Diameter: 0.65
Perforation Type: III (single cone)
Glass, lapis blue
u) Three yellow glass beds of irregular shape that look like they were shaped by hand when fabric was soft; perforations are large, ovoid and regular suggesting pressure around a central core. (?)
1) Length: 0.45; 2) Length: 0.55; 3) Length: 0.42
Color maybe 2.5 Y 6/6 "olive yellow"
Beck's definitions of "irregular", pp. 50-1, don't fit
S. Goldstein - pressed as being wound.
v) I. D. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Long, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.7; Diameter: 0.46
Polished bone (or ivory), nicely made.
2.5 Y 8/4 "pale yellow"