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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-20-1976
Descriptor Level A
Area G
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 14
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 24
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 13
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2679
Stratum: 03
Material: Bronze
Period: Ayyubid / Mamluk
Allocated to: AUAM 76.441
Notes: 46 x 36 x 11.5 x 5 x 2.7
Diameter: 4.65 cm.
Infant's bangle.
Notes Reverse: G 14: 13
Byzantine church
Had 7 human burials (parts)
Ayyubid / Mamluk burial cist.
Bowl 2733 (Also Ayyubid / Mamluk)
Description: Cf. 2567
Entire bangle, good condition but needs cleaning; One flattened end is larger than other 1.1 cm wide 0.9 cm.
Width of base: 0.5 cm.; 11.7 cm. long.
AUSS XVI p. 191
A series of cist burials from Ayyubid / Mamluk period. Constructed of field stones "set on edge in the general shape of an Egyptian mummy case; broader from waist up, tapering slightly to the ankles - average length 1.80 to 2 meters. Cist burials were arranged in layers. Both articulated and disarticulated skeletons in them."
Locus 10 - man with crossed arms and ring on finger.
Locus 13 - parts of seven different skeletons; old male, small young female; the rest were remains of children and infants (one 12 year old male, 5 year old male, one infant, and 2 fetuses). Not clear whether members of same family; "small bronze necklace and bracelet were found in this cist as well as a small bowl" - Ayyubid / Mamluk.
No necklace listed in locus list.