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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-28-1976
Descriptor Level A
Area C
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 9
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 82
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 37
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2792
Stratum: 02
Material: Iron
Period: Ayyubid / Mamluk; Abbasid; Umayyad; Byzantine; Late Roman; Early Roman.
Allocated to: AUAM 76.542
Notes: 62 x 4 mm.
Bracelet.
Notes Reverse: 2876 coin (Roman Emperor Arcadius 395 - 408)
2880 coin (Mamluk 1250 - 1517)
Piece is 11.5 cm. long; 0.55 cm. diameter.
Rock tumble or collapse in room enclosure.
AUSS XVI p. 87, 90
Topsoil in Mamluk building southeastern room; soil layer contained an iron ring fragment [2792] and two coins. Locus was also rich in bone remains.
p. 91
Domestic function for the building complex, modest size of rooms.
Occupation phase is dated by coin hoard 1260 - 1277 - major occupation commenced at Heshbon in ca. 1260. Mongol invasion under Tamerlane caused abandonment* of site in ca. 1400 - 1401.
C. 9 is in "second phase" - maybe 14th century
(* not desctruction)
Site was a postal station along Damascus - Cairo route; possibly a Haj station along the pilgrimage route to Mecca.