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Site Names

Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון

Creation Date

7-31-1973

Descriptor Level A

Area F

Descriptor Level B

Square No. 18

Descriptor Level C

Basket No. 28

Descriptor Level D

Locus No. 17 - Loculus 7

Description

Obj. Reg. No. 1585

Stratum: HR01-3 (11-13)

Material: Gold

Allocated to: Department of Antiquities

Notes: Diameter of Globe: 14 mm; Length of Pendant: 14 mm; Length of Bar: 16 x 7 mm

Beautiful gold earring. Globe shape with small gold dot in the center.

Three gold pendants hang from a bar below the globe.

Notes on Copy: Period: Early Roman

Photo back as well and from side.

End of wire has been twisted back.

Wrapped around middle ring, affixed permanently.

Perfect specimen not bent.

Notes on Copy Reverse: No associated objects.

Locus: Loculus 7 with skeleton, Early Roman

"Perfect specimen not bent or damaged. Below the hemisphere - with - dot is the metal piece whose upper register has the coiled-wire "V", a ribbed wire section and three pendants each with three sets of decorative coils."

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