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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-30-1974
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 23
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 1
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 1
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 1958
Material: Iron
Allocated to: AUAM 74.283
Notes: 98 x 17 x 5 mm
Hardware not in EEP's corpus
Possibly a candle holder. PR [Paul Ray?]
Cf. REH note
Notes on Attached Copy: Options: 1) Tent peg: but a) point is very sharp for something driven repeatedly into sand, and b) why put an iron tent peg into a tomb?
2) Candle holder: a) point would have been driven into wood (therefore remains sharp), b) candle would have given light in a dark tomb.
REH 2-15-95