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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-2-1973
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-12
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 9
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 4
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 1360
Stratum: 08-10
Material: Iron
Period: Late Roman / Byzantine
Allocated to: AUAM 73.0101
Notes: Diameter: 65 mm
Broken in half. One end has rounded head.
Badly corroded.
Notes Reverse: "The N Crypt"
Also: 1349 bead, (1360 bracelet), 4 nails heads, 1377 small link, small coin (unregistered)
Rounded basic bangle; Graduated towards finial. Final seems to be shaped.
Is this a bangle or fibula?
AUSS XIII p. 203, 4
Eight tombs in Necropolis area.
F.12 was below T.11a
Had two separate layers Byzantine soil possible during Byzantine period, bones of F. 11a + b were deposited in F. 12 to prevent further desecration + covered with earth.
9 adults, 4 children [one had vertical front suture, cf. F.T.1]
Pottery - Byzantine
First use - Late Roman by coins and lamp.