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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-30-1976
Descriptor Level A
Area K
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-1
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 5
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. Balk Removal 4
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2852
Stratum: 09, 10 (?)
Material: Glass
Period: Late Roman, Early Byzantine
Allocated to: AUAM 76.595
Notes: 47 x 7 x 4 mm.
Notes Reverse: K 1, Shaft tomb, Late Roman - Early Byzantine type of construction.
Layer over entire tomb floor
2879 Mamluk coin.
Description: Could be from same bracelet. Ridges (imitate wire?)
Thickened are of overlap ?
Flat inner side, black glass.
0.6, cross-section width, but not even.
AUSS XVI p. 147, Fig. 13
"Vertical - shaft Late Roman or Early Byzantine Tomb"
"Usual interior horizontal ledge on which square - cut stones were places in order to seal the shaft"
Tomb had been violated.
Shaft was widened at bottom forming an arcosolium on either side, had 3 parallel troughs.
Contents disturbed Ayyubid / Mamluk because of sherds and coin.
Bone fragments of one adult.