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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-8-1976
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 31
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 25
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 8 - Loculus 1
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2539
Stratum: 11
Material: Silver
Period: Early Roman - Def. (see pottery)
Allocated to: AUAM 76.323
Notes: 41 x 3 mm
Infant's bangle.
Notes Reverse: Early Roman construction of tomb. (Tomb 31 (2539))
Early Roman cooking pot; glass vase; alabaster bowl; ivory applicator 2495; ivory ring fragment 2494; fragment of decorated ivory pins 2716; Nabataean Roman juglet 2540; spindle whorl or button 2505 + 2515; bronze ring 2516; Herodian lamp; fragment of bone pin 2717; Egyptian scarab 2525, Horn, Heshbon 1976 AUSS p. 223; bronze ring with incised amethyst inset 2535; spindle whorl or button 2536; ivory button 2537; (bronze bracelet 2539); bronze spatula 2546; six parts metal bracelet fragment 2549; bone whorl 2740; broken bone pin 2819
Description: Diameter: 4.1; cross: 0.3 cm.
Plain bangle. Cross-over fastening wire twists.
Cf. Petrie, Objects of Daily Use, Pl. II: 27, Macalister, Gezer, Pl. CXVIII: 1; Heshbon 592
Fig. 12 - between pp. 140 + 141
Tomb had 14 loculi; characterized by outstanding craftsmanship and design.
Pottery -> Tomb used over considerable period of time - concluding with earthquake of 365 A.D., ceiling collapsed.
5 phases; Constructed and used Early Roman II + III. Architectural features and sherds.
Loculus 1 - Most significant of the fourteen in tomb.
10 individuals; one infant; 10 year old; 15 year old; 30 or 40 with arthritis; 65 with arthritis, 5 foot 5 inches to 5 foot 6 inches.
Early Roman, Late Roman, and Early Byzantine pottery.
Wooden coffins (-> no nails)
Cooking pot with 4 handles and cremation ashes.
In entire tomb - 35 individuals.
Abscesses in teeth and worn down from gritty flour.
No pig bones -> no Roman cult of dead.