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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
8-5-1976
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-37
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 37
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 18b
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 2915
Stratum: 02-04
Material: Iron
Period: Late Roman
Allocated to: AUAM 76.652
Notes: 38 x 7 mm.; 33 x7 mm.
Notes Reverse: 2811 Iron hook; 2919 bronze ring; 2914 flint blade fragment; 2916 bone button fragments [J. N. says Early Roman from T-1]; 2917 glass beads (2); 2918 bronze earring fragment.
Large cave; 2 complete sarcophagi, but lidless and filled with soil; then 3 more sarcophagi were found.
Early Roman 4 period, earliest use of cave. Burial site complete at end of Early Roman 4. Burials disturbed in Early Byzantine period.
49 individuals buried: 33 fetuses, 3 newborns, 4 - one years olds, 9 adults.
Ceased to be used for burials in Umayyad period.
Ayyubid / Mamluk - "maximum domestic activity"
Modern times - Temporary shelter, animal pen.