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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-8-1974
Descriptor Level A
Area B
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 4
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 497
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 263
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2083
Stratum: HR04
Material: Ivory
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities
Notes: 116 x 6 mm
ER/H IRON (Early Roman/Hellenistic, Iron Age)
Notes on Copy: Entire Length: 11.59; Decoration Length: 4.57; Diameter: 0.75
Closest color: Grayish orange 10 YR 7/4 or Pale yellowish orange 10 YR 8/6
Ivory probably. Beautifully polished. Could be bone but very elegant quality.
Notes Reverse on Copy: Petrie, Obj: Daily Use: pl. XIX: 18
Egypt, wooden, XVIII dynasty from Lahun
Loud, Megiddo Ivories, pl. 56: 295, 6, 7
p. 20 "294-5 Incised handles. No. 294 pierced end to end. No. 295 pierced except at solid, plain end. No. 294 OIM No. A22303; b2155, OIM No. A22368; b2245"
"296. Fragment of red, round in section. Possibly handle of an implement as suggested by curvature at broken end and finish of other end. Incised decoration, cf. Nos. 297-98. PAM No. 38,839; b 2158"
"297-8 Fragments of rods round in section. Incised decoration. Decorated end of No. 297 probably once pierced where broken. No. 297, OIM No. A22421; b. 2319..."
[H2083 has no piercing or hole]