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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-3-1976
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-38
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 24
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 3
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2860
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Glass
Period: Early Roman -> Ayyubid / Mamluk
Allocated to: AUAM 76.603
Notes: 73 x 11.5 x 8 mm.
Armlet.
Ceramics Late Roman date.
Notes Reverse:
Cave same as 2853
Locus 3 had many objects.:
Bone hairpin 2752; bone needle 2748; bone inlay 2749; bronze ring 2790; ring with cross 2801; bone hairpin 2802; bead 2817; 5 pieces of bone inlay 2818; ring 2810; chain link 2809; bone inlay 2858; ring 2854; bell 2857; 2 beads 2869; gold glass bead 2870; glass bracelet 2860; bone inlay 2861; Late Roman 1 - 2 lamp 2922; bone inlay 2890; hairpin 2888; 2 beads 2895; 2 rings 2903; 2 broken rings 2904; ring fragment 2902; Late Roman 1 - 2 bowl 2925; Late Roman 2 - 3 pot.
Late Roman lamp, bowl, pot = Late Roman
Description: Perfect specimen, looks new.
1 cm. cross-section; flat inner side
Diameter: 7.3 from outside.
Sheep - goat bones, Minimum 22 persons; more female than male.
Oldest 70 - 80 years.
12 year old - skull with hole - died from this.