Object Photographs Collection
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Hook
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/hiap-photos/5675
Obj. Reg. No. 901
Material: Iron
Allocated to: AUAM 71.332

Pendant
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/hiap-photos/4702
#02235

Object #02234

Bronze Ring
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/hiap-photos/4404
Object #2206

Bronze Band
Object #02287

Bead

1093

Registration Guide
1099A

B2 -
136
73

B1 - 372 - 143

Hesbon 73
Subj: right portion if forehead with forehead suture

Hesbon 73
Photo #1080
Subj: left side of female skull mid to late 20's in age

Material: Iron

Material: Lime Stone

Jar Fragment

Material: Shell

Material: Irony

Material: Ivory

Material: Clay

Material: Bone

Bronze Wire

Material: Limestone

Material: Flint

Bronze Pin

Material: Lead

Bronze Hook

Material: Stone

Material: Plastic

Bronze Bracelet

Material: slag

Bronze Rod

Material: Slag

Modern Strirrup Object: #02228

Spatula: Object #02212

Bronze Ring

Bronze Band

Bead
#02258

Ring Fragment
#02203

Stone Martar Fragment

Glass Bracelet Fragment

Materials: Stone and Bronze

Heshbon 73
Photo #1070
Subj: rights side of female skull mid to late 20's in age

Heshbon 73
Photo: #1074
Subj: male skill with forehead suture, 45-50 years old

Heshbon 73
Photo: #1075
Subj: right side of male skull with forehead suture (not visible), 45 - 50 years old

Photo: #1076
Subj: forehead frag of male skull, age: mid 50's

Subj: female skull, ca. 20 years old

Photo #1069
Subj: female skull, ca. 20 years old

Subj: female skull, mid to late 20's in age

Heshbon
Subj: detail of structure forehead structure

Subj: female skull, between 13-16 years old.
Possible male mandible, but , may belong to the female skull

Right side of forehead of male skull, age: mid 50s

Female skull, between 13-16 years old
Possible male mandible, but may belong to female skull

Cosmetic Spatula or Writing Stylus
Obj. Reg. No. 976
Stratum: 14
Material: Bronze
Allocate to: AUAM 71.378
Notes: 10.68 cm. long; Spatula width: 0.7

Hairpin Fragment
Obj. Reg. No. 996
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Ivory
Allocated to: AUAM 71.391
Notes: 3.46 cm.

Ring
Stratum: BA05/6
Material: Silver
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities
Notes: 2.37 cm. diameter
"Stone" looks like it is cleaned silver (not described)

Bracelet Links
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Wood, Pseudo-jet
Allocated to: AUAM 71.392
See QDAP, XIV, 81-94

Bangle
Stratum: 09-10
Material: Glass
Period: Early Roman, few Late Roman
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities
Notes: 5.39 cm. diameter
Child's Bangle
Notes Reverse: Tomb 1 - Immediate locus - soil fill, mixed with human remains within central chamber of tomb.
996 Hairpin fragment, 997 Ring, 998 Inlay fragment
Many objects. See card 999

Ring
Stratum: 04
Material: Bronze
Period: Late Roman, Early Roman dominant, 7th-6th century
Notes: 1.95 cm. diameter; 0.2 cm. thick
Clean before drawing?

Cooking Pot Lid Handle
Stratum: 3
Material: Pottery (?)
Notes: 2.09 cm. diameter
Notes Reverse: Occupation debris above floor 20

Nail
Notes: 7.88 cm.

Bead (?)
Stratum: n. d.
Material: Glass
Notes: 2 beads: a) brown b) white - 7.5 YR 4/2 - translucent
a) 'Multiple wound bead'
Length: 1.05; Diameter: 1.3
General Shape: I. B. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928).
Surface is irregular
Perforation: 0.7; Type: V b.
b) Length: 0.73; Diameter: 0.46
Decomposing gray glass covered with cream colored layer.
General Shape: I. D. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Irregular surface
Perforation: 0.25; Type VI a.
NB/

Bowl Fragment
Material: Pottery
Allocated to: Amman?
Notes: 4.18 cm. high

Button
Material: Onyx
Notes: 1.72 cm. diameter x 0.89 cm. high
Could be a small whorl or the top part broken off of another object.

Missile Stone
Material: Chert

Muller Fragment
Material: Basalt
Allocated to: Amman?

Fishing Hook
Notes: 3.84 cm.

Weight Fragment
Material: Unbaked clay
Actual weight: 5.95; Reconstructed weight: 11.20

Weight
Material: Unbaked clay
Notes: 2.32 cm. diameter (broken)
Actual weight: 9.35; Reconstructed weight: 11.77

Weight
Material: Unbaked clay
Notes: Broken - 2.28 cm. diameter
Actual weight: 7.83; Reconstructed weight: 11.97

Ring
Material: Bronze
Notes: 1.38 cm. diameter; 0.3 cm. thick

Bead
Stratum: AM03
Material: Glass
Notes: Blue-gray/mottled gray N 6/2, 5/2, 4/2
Length: 0.65; Diameter: 0.75
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.25; Type VI a

Stratum: AM03
Material: Glass - probably faience
Notes: Turquoise 5 B 7/6 "Light blue" is closest
Length: 1.15; Diameter: 0.65
XII. D. 2. b. (Pentagonal perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation Type III (Single cone)

Weight
Notes: 2.28 cm. diameter - incomplete

Notes: Broken - 2.32 cm. diameter

Arrowhead

Knife Blade & Part of a Tong

Stratum: AM03
Notes: Yellow 5 Y 6/4 "Pale olive"
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.21; Type VI a

Mace and Head
Notes: 44.5 cm. long

Bangle Fragment
Period: 6-7th, Early Roman, few Late Roman
Notes: 4.2 cm. diameter; 5 cm. long
Heavy corrosion; no visible decoration
Infant's anklet?
Notes Reverse: Immediate: 1040 pottery juglet, 1057 ceramic pottery
958 ring, 996 hairpin fragment, 997 ring, 998 inlay fragments, 1000 bracelet, 1041 hair needle fragment, 1058 button, 1059 ring fragment, 1060 pin head fragment, 1061 bracelet clasp, 1157 bracelet, 1158 earring fragment, 1159 bracelet, 1160 hair needle fragment, 1161 hair needle fragment, 1162 beads, 1163 bracelet fragments, 1164 bracelet, 1165 button, 1166 button fragment, 1167 beads, 1198 bead, 1199 bead, 1220 ring, 1221 bracelet, 1222 bell fragment, 1208 bead
T.1 Chamber tomb with loculi, Type 1 AUSS XI p. 115
The Rolling Stone Tomb: from chamber radiated 12 loculi, 4 each on North, East, and South. Closure - Early Roman up to 70 AD, moveable door allowed for sequential multiple burials; family sepulcher. Skeletons scattered, 77 individuals buried there; recently looted; but some beads, rings, bracelets, and bone hairpins.

Cosmetic Spatula
Stratum: HR01
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities
Notes: 18.5 cm.; Spatula width at shoulders 1.2; Spatula length: 5.7
Spatula with Kohl stick on other end.

Earring
Stratum: HR01 (11)
Material: Gold
Period: Late Roman Tomb
Notes: 1.25 cm. diameter; 0.34 width of widest part
Hollow tube filled with paste
Miniature of fragment specimen body is thick + appears hollow.
Cf. also smaller pair 750
Notes Reverse: Associated Objects:
1007 Late Roman Juglet, 1001 Spatula, 1003 Bead, 1004 Belt buckle, 1005-1006 Bracelets
Locus: Sarcophagus 2; Late Roman Tomb
With 750 in text.
Body is relatively thick and graduates abruptly for the wire ends.
The thickness appears to indicate a hollow foil tube characteristically filled with paste.
Flat inner part (made like 639 but much smaller)

Stratum: HR01 (11)
Period: 3 Early Roman body sherds, 1 possible Early Roman
Notes: Gold - Green 5 Y 7/6 "yellow"
X. C. 2. b. (Rectangular perimeter, Standard, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.2
Irregular, may be broken
Has a gold metallic look, glass is decomposing

Belt Buckle
Notes: 7.62 cm. long
Cloth impressions visible

Bangle
Period: Late Roman
Notes: 8 cm. diameter
Anklet
Badly corroded.
Notes Reverse: Sarcophagus
Grave contents badly disturbed
1007 juglet, 870 vessel fragment, 1001 spatula, 1002 earring, 1003 bead, 1004 belt buckle, 1005 bracelet, 1006 bracelet

Bangle
Anklet
Badly corroded.
Maybe larger hump indicates wiring of ends.
Notes Reverse: See cards 1005 + 873

Cosmetic Spatula
Notes: 19.3 cm.; spatula width: 1.35
Long cosmetic spatula with kohl stick end

Material: Clay (?)
Notes: 2.16 cm. diameter; Inner diameter: 0.9 cm.; Thickness: 0.6 cm.
Doubtful if this is a finger ring

Ring Fragment
Notes: 5.2 cm. diameter; 2.4 cm. inner diameter

Notes: 1.61 cm. diameter; 0.2 cm. thick

Spindle Whorl
Material: Basalt

Stratum: 12, 13
Period: Late Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Approximately 3.37 cm. diameter

Stratum: HR04 (14)
Notes: Cobalt Blue - closest 5 PB 3/2
I. B. 2. b (Circular perimeter, Short, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
One end is cut on a diagonal
Perforation: 0.2 (larger end); Type VIa + Type III (single cone)

Material: Faience
Notes: Length: 1.02; Diameter: 1.22
Glaze is coming off in patches
5 BG 7/2 "Pale blue green"
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.41; Type VIa

Period: 1 Late Arabic (Islamic), few Early Roman, 1 possible 7th-6th
Notes: 1.47 cm. diameter; 0.3 thickness
Overlapped ends

Weight (?)
Material: Limestone
Notes: 4.82 cm. high; Base: 3.1 cm. diameter
36.06 grams.
Notes Reverse: Fill layer

Major Portion of a Muller
Allocated to: AUAM 71.850 (3.12.3)

Iron Fragment
Notes: 5.8 cm. long
Can't determine object

Stratum: BA03 (07)
Material: Glass - Quartz
Notes: White, clear, translucent
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)

Notes: Broken
2.32 cm. diameter
8.95 actual weight; 12.25 reconstructed weight

Notes: Broken
2.33 cm. diameter

Incomplete
Actual: 9.99; Reconstructed: 11.67

Material: Glazed Glass - Faience
Notes: 1.93 cm. diameter x 1.45 cm. high
Turquoise, closest 5B 5/6 "Moderate blue"
I. B. 4. fb (Circular perimeter, Short, Cylinder profile w/ 2 convex arms) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation diameter: 1.0; Type VI b Extra large

Material: Faience (?)
Notes: Length: 0.45; Diameter: 0.55
Turquoise, closest 5 B 7/6
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928) but one profile is bg (pear shaped with convex and concave curve)

Material: Faience (?) - Glass probably
Notes: Length: 0.28; Diameter: 0.45
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid) (Beck, 1928)
Very carbonized, black

Hair Pin

Button
Possibly part of a hair pin head
Comparisons establish this as a button
See especially G. Davidson, Corinth, p. 298

Knife Fragments

Signet Ring
Material: Silver
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine body sherds

Bangle Fragments
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine body sherds
Notes: Approximately 6.2 cm. diameter; 9.1 cm. long; 0.4 cm. thick, flat side
Quite corroded
Notes Reverse: Layer "C" Ayyubid/Mamluk
944-53 Arabic coin - lots of them; 932 Arrowhead; 931 Iron knife; 933 Signet ring
AUSS XI p. 101
D.6 : 33 - Cistern (20,900 gal.), Roman date for construction, if not before; last use Late Arabic (Islamic); Nine distinct layers
40 pails of sherds: dominant Ayyubid/Mamluk, Umayyad, Early Byzantine, Late + Early Roman, late Iron III
Over 100 objects - 7 complete ceramic vessels, glass lamp, 35 coins [mostly Umayyad, Ayyubid/Mamluk], 11 heads, 10 clay ball weights, 7 arrowheads, 6 rings, 3 bracelets, 3 knives, a number of bricks, nails, olive pits + eggshells, needle, button, sickle, key, spike, loom weight, trapping, wooden handle in metal sheath, part of stone column.

Coin - Arabic (Islamic)
Mamluk

Coin - Arabic (Islamic)
Umayyad

Umayyad

Notes: 1.65 cm. diameter x 0.16 cm.
Mamluk

Material: Silver
1342-45 Al-Salih 'Imad Al-Din Isma'il

Notes: 2 cm. diameter x 0.14 cm.
1342-45 Al-Salih Isma'il

Notes: 1.88 cm. diameter x 0.21 cm.
1363-77 Al-Ashraf Sha'ban

Rod
Notes: 9.0 cm. long; 1.1 cm. diameter

Incised Rim Fragment
Material: Pottery

Whetstone Fragment
Material: Soapstone

Architectural Fragment
Material: Basalt
Notes: 9.33 x 18 cm.

Mug Fragment - Roman
Material: Limestone

Spindle Whorl
Stratum: 14?
Notes: 2.84 diameter x 1.14 cm. thick
Perforation: 0.53

Cosmetic Spoon
Bowl width: 0.56

Nail

Allocated to: AUAM 323
Notes: 2.35 cm. diameter x 0.3 cm. thick

Cosmetic Rod
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine, few possible Roman
Notes: 12.87 cm. long x 0.35 diameter

Ring Fragments
Notes: a) 2.8 cm. diameter
b) 3.2 cm. diameter

Disc
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) dominant, few Byzantine body sherds

Material: Carnelian
Notes: Orange - 7.5 YR 5/8 - Mottled, lighter and dark - translucent
Length: 0.57; Diameter: 0.97 cm.
I. B. 1. e. (Circular perimeter, Short, Convex Bicone) (Beck, 1928)

Stirrup

Grappling Anchor

Coin
Notes: 1.48 cm. diameter x 0.14 cm.
Unidentified

Trapping

Tesserae in Cement
Material: Tesserae and Cement
Allocated to: Amman?

Late Roman Lamp Fragment
Material: Pottery
Notes: 5.97 cm. long x 4.06 cm. wide x 3.18 cm. high.

Ridge on outside
0.3 cm. diameter

Worked Stone
Allocated to: AUAM 71.315 (3.12.7)
Notes: 6.9 cm. diameter x 3.23 cm. thick
Circular piece of porous basalt with depression in center
No sign of use

Ostracon
Notes: Early Arabic (Islamic)

Cross
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine, few Early Roman, few 7th-6th
A trefoil on each of eight tips with reverse scallop between two curving arms; perforation; stone originally in center
Other markings:

Buckle Fragment

Disc
Notes: 7 cm. diameter x 1.35 cm. thick
Not jewelry or cosmetic object

Rubbing Stone
Material: Pumice

Coin
Notes: Arabic (Islamic)
1.69 cm. diameter x 0.2 cm.

1382-99 Al-Zahir Barkuk

1377-81 'Ala' Al-Din 'Ali

1191-1220 or 1244-84 Al-Mansur Muhammad I or II

1260-77 Al-Zahir Bibars (Mamluk)

Incised Sherd
Notes: 7.4 x 5.7 cm.

Material: Smoky Quartz, with rutile inclusions
Period: Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: Gray with darker flecks
Length: 2.15 cm; Width: 1.13 cm.
XIV. D. 2. f. (Octagonal perimeter, Long, Truncated bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Claw Hammer
Notes: 9.6 x 3.1 at widest x 1.8 cm.

Vessel Fragment
Material: Alabaster

Notes: 1.16 cm. diameter - inner diameter
Heavily corroded; thickened bezel

Buckle

Bangle Fragments
Period: Late Roman
Badly corroded, no apparent design
Notes Reverse: L. L.
Sarcophagus - grave contents badly disturbed
871 Ring; 872 Buckle; 873 Bracelet fragments
AUSSXI p. 122 "Chamber Tombs with Arcosolia."
T10 "A large chamber cut into bedrock at eastern end of Tomb F.8 was not recognized as a separate tomb until much of the soil had been cleared from interior." Central chamber with three Arcosolia. Two contained the completed trough graves. Also two recesses which may have been additions to accommodate later burials. Robbers in antiquity.
"The tomb itself dates to the very end of the Late Roman period, based on pottery recovered."
"In the four trough graves in the northern and western arcosolia the robbers had left only fragmented boxes and two belt buckles, a ring, an iron bracelet, a gold lunate earring (1002), a broken alabaster case, + a few beads. Two of the trough graves of the eastern arcosolium, however, were intact, while the third grave of that same group had been violated." From these....two glass vases, a small bell + clapper, juglet + various small beads.

Notes: 2.28 m. diameter; 2.4 outer diameter
Interesting bezel corroded

Fossil Shell

Brick Fragment
Allocated to: AUAM 71.849 (3.12.8)

Notes: 5 cm. long

Juglet
Notes: 6.5 cm. high

Dark green 5 G 4/2 "grayish green"
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.3; Type VIa

Notes: White
I. B. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)

Coin
Unidentified

Notes: Gold - colored Whitish iridescent - decomposing glass 7.5 YR 8/2
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.26; Type VIb

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) dominant, few Roman, 6 tesserae
Definite regular wire twists; flattened ends but wire twists; composed of two wires?
Bracelet or possible Armlet
Notes Reverse: Similar to Tell en Nasbeh I, pl. 112: 7, 8, 9 + p. 303 (I2, Byzantine)?
Lachish IV2, pl. 25: 37?
Cracked silt layer on East floor of cistern under dirt pile that had been spilled through opening.
912 coin; 846 stone weight; 863 bent iron nail
AUSS XI p. 98
Cistern capacity 60,600 gallons! Once a natural caul. Floors + walls completely plastered covering floor was uniform depth layer of dark gray silt, "obviously having settled through water during use, but now dried + cracked into large chunks;"
5 distinct soil layers on Eastern end - contained 23 pails of sherds (predominantly Ayyubid/Mamluk, but also Umayyad, Early Byzantine, + Roman), 25 coins (All Ayyubid + Mamluk except # 53 which is of Pontius Pilate 29/30 AD), five nails, four rings, two weights, two hooks, grappling anchor, bracelet (862), glass bead, flint knife, column fragment. Cistern date - Construction Umayyad, cleaned out Ayyubid/Mamluk.

Notes: Bent - Approximately 13.5 cm. long

Notes: "Greenish gray" - 5 GY 6/1 - slightly translucent
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928).

Stratum: Note done
Probably not a finger ring; piece of a pipe

Molded Figurine Fragment
Notes: Roman Figurine

Lamp
Notes: Late Roman
7.35 cm. long x 6.12 cm. diameter

2-Handled Jar
Notes: Late Roman
Approximately 0.28 cm. high

2-Handled Jar
Notes: Late Roman
Approximately 22.5 cm. high

Lamp
9.9 cm. long x 6.8 cm. diameter

Decorated Fragment
Notes: Not jewelry, weaving of cosmetic item

Corinthian Capital Fragment

Slingstone
Material: Chert

Notes: Eyelet head

Part of a Key

Cosmetic Rod
Tapers to a blunt point

Cosmetic Rod
Notes: Length: 9.06

Notes: Corroded
3.5 diameter; 0.9 thickness

Notes: 3.0 diameter; 0.5 thickness
Are there flat edges on this?

Notes: Complete
7.14 grams
Diameter: 2.1

Notes: Turquoise / Bright blue 5 B 5/6 "Moderate blue"
Perforation Type VI a; Medium Large; Diameter: 0.4

Brick

1363-77 Al-Ashraf Sha'ban

103 - 76 BC Alexander Jannaeus

Coin - Possibly Roman
Roman (4th - 6th Century)

Needle
Period: 2 Late Arabic (Islamic) intrusive, Byzantine, Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: Curved

Byzantine Lamp Fragment

Stratum: BA02
Material: Coral (?)
Period: 279: Byzantine, possible Late Roman, few 7th-6th body sherds
296: Late Roman, few Early Roman, few 7th-6th, possible Byzantine body sherds
Notes: Orange 2.5 YR 6/8 "light red"
I. D. 1. a. (Circular circumference, Long, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928) but pock marked.

Buckle
Period: Late Roman, Early Roman, few 7th-6th body sherds
Notes: From infant burial (was connected to some iron object which was completely oxidized)
Cloth fragments attached.
Cross?

Stratum: BA02 (06)
Notes: Corroded with iron; from infant burial.
Whitish thick layer flakes off to reveal porous sponge-holed silvery layer.
IX. D. 2. b. (Square perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
"Flush stratified eye" decorations, one on each surface; Beck, p. 64
Folded cane (around wire) or just a crack?
Notes Reverse: Guido, p. 6 "(3) 'Eye' : Generally surrounded by a ring or rings different in colour from the body colour of the bead."
p. 8 Pressed "while still half molten the incipient bead is pressed into hexagonal or square or biconical shapes."

Byzantine Vessel Base

Flint Knife
Material: Flint

Period: Late Roman dominant, few Byzantine body sherds, few Early Roman body sherds, few 7th-6th body sherds
Notes: 3.9 diameter; 0.8 thickness
Large, probably not jewelry but hardware
Not in EEP's report

Hook

Coin - Byzantine
Byzantine

Coin - Possible Roman
Roman (4th-6th century)

Spindle Whorl

Stratum: BA04 (08)
Material: Glass (?) Coral?
Period: Possible Early Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine dominant, possible Late Roman, Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: Orange 2.5 YR 5/8
I. D. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Long, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Large pock marks make uneven surface slightly curved

Rubbing Stone
Notes: Size

Weight (?)
Material: Lead

Chain Link (?)
Period: 6 Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine dominant, few Early Roman, few 7th-6th body sherds
Notes Reverse: See Objects of Daily Use [42], pl. iv: 49, + p. 5

Vase
Notes: First complete glass vessel found on the tell.

Piece of Coral
Material: Coral
7.5 R 6/2
No perforation, not a bead

Weight ?
Notes: 19.05 grams
Notes Reverse: Mamluk fill from upslope

Stone Fragment

Hellenistic Stamped Handle

Snake Design on Byzantine Pottery Ware

Marble Fragment
Material: Marble

Jar Fragment
Notes: Found over the infant burial

Coin - Roman
Unidentified

9 BC - AD 40 Aretas IV, Nabataean

Tesserae in Cement
Material: Tesserae in cement
Notes: Ten tesserae

Slingstone

Awl
Material: Bone, probably ivory
Notes: Length: 5.64; Width at eye: 0.95 cm.; Perforation: 0.51
Bodkin or drawing a string through a casing?

Loop Headed Pin
Period: Byzantine, Early Roman, Few 7th-6th

Ring (?)
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: Diameter: 2.8 cm.; Thickness: 0.4

Double-Ended Kohl Stick
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine, few 7th-6th
Whole but bent

Material: Glass, iridescent
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine
Notes: Off-white
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
With two lobes on perforation perimeter

Double-Ended Kohl Stick Fragment
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine

Notes: Bent

Object (?)
Notes: Small hole in the middle.

Material: Frit (?)
Notes: Green - 5 GY 5/2 "Dusky yellow green"
Finish painted on white blue dots
I. B. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.6; Type: VI b.

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine, possible Early Roman
Notes: Good condition
Thickness at widest part: 0.9; Thickness at opposite point: 0.3

Ostracon

Tooth
Material: Bone
Notes: Horse (?) incisor made into part for bracelet

Earrings
Stratum: BA05/6
Material: Gold
Notes: Hollow foil tube, filled with paste?
1.3 cm. diameter (750 pair); 1.25 cm. diameter (cf. 1002)
Delicate, matched, in excellent condition.
Bases are graduated, thicker at the bottom of the ring with narrowing ends which cross over and twist once over the opposite end.
1002's clasp is placed to one side
Notes Reverse: Inner part of ring is flat, outer part has two planes

Period: No pottery
Notes: 2.0 cm. diameter; 0.2 cm. thickness

Material: Carnelian quartz
Notes: Orange, some stripes 2.5 YR 5/8 "red"
Perforation Type III
I. B. 2. f. (Circular perimeter, Short, Truncated bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Glass or bronze? (shiny brass underneath)
Period: No pottery
Notes: Green - corroded
I. B. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.5; Type V. b

Period: Early Roman, Byzantine
Notes: Black - found in lower leg area
4.8 diameter
Flat inner side
Child's bangle
Notes Reverse: Loculus extending from the shaft floor westward
An adult + child buried
A "sealed" locus
"Bracelets" - glass, 759-761
Bronze tub (?) 762
See card 587

Period: Possible Early Roman, Byzantine
Notes: Black - found in lower leg area.
5 cm. from outside to outside; enlarged part is probably the join.
Flat inner side, no decorations; excellent condition
"Greenish" end inner side
Child's bangle
Notes Reverse: Adult + child burial
Glass bracelets 759-762
See card 587

Stratum: BA05/6
Period: Byzantine
Notes: Black - found in lower leg area.
Child's Bangle
Notes Reverse: Adult + child (a "sealed" locus)
759 Glass bracelet
760 Glass bracelet
762 Bronze tube (?)
See card 587

Hollow Rod
Period: Possible Early Roman, Byzantine body sherds, Pre-Arabic (Pre-Islamic) body sherds

Byzantine Lamp Base

Notes: Diameter: 2.85; Thickness: 1.16; Perforation: 0.40

Fossil

Ring Fragments
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, 7th-6th
Notes: Diameter: 1.9 cm; Thickness 0.9 at widest part.

Tack or Clip (?)

Notes: Both sides of this are ridged with decoration.

Material: Soft stone, powers off easily, steatite
Period: 2 Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine dominant, few Early Roman, few 7th-6th
Notes: Black, dark gray with 2 whitish veins N/5 "gray"
I. C. 1. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)

Sickle Blade
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, few possible Early Arabic (Islamic)

Bell
Period: Probable Late Arabic (Islamic)

Vessel Fragment
Material: Alabaster
Notes Reverse: Har. Samaria: Fig. 206 7d.
Anthedon Sinai: Plate XXVI: II's 15, 16, 18, 19 (Flinders Petri[e], London: British School of Egyptian Archaeology, 1937).

Pestle
Notes: Mortar broken in half.
Mortar missing as of 10 February '72 (KAM)

Animal Figurine Fragment
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) dominant, Byzantine, 6th-7th B.C.

Earring
Stratum: HR04
Material: Gold
Notes Reverse: 1.49 cm. diameter x 2.8 cm. long
23 arches.
Sphere has doily put on top
Associated objects: Unknown because of its removal by workman
Locus: Early Roman tomb
"Basin shape is round with a daisy-like effect of an openwork border bent upwards around a central disc. The openwork is a series of simple arches stamped into the gold foil. A wire projection extends which probably entered the pierced lobe and formed the ring."
On the back the wire is flattened, affixed to top of daisy eyelet and back of disk, then rolled under for a round loop as if for a dangle. Does this look like 2554 - would that kind of dangle be affixed from this loop?

Notes: Too corroded for recognition of material. Probably faience.
Color: Pale green, lighter than 5 BG 7/2
I. C. !. a (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation diameter: 0.45; Type VIa Medium Large
Melon in category "gadrooned", has 11 gadroons

Material: Carnelian
Notes: Orange - mottled, dark stripes 5 YR 5/8 + 4/8
Somewhat irregular in shape with marring.
Perforation Type III

Material: Quartz
Notes: Clear
Perforation Type IV

Material: Glass - decomposed
Notes: Black - with iridescent gold + pink, black porous
Perforation: 0.25 at larger end
Perforation Type III (Single cone)

Material: Glass (?) Faience
Notes: Turquoise 5 G 7/2 "Pale green"
Perforation: 0.65
Ridge halfway through perforation.
Perforation Type VIb Extra large.
Melon - 24 gadroons

Mirror
Notes: Diameter: 7 cm.; Thickness: 0.27 cm
Corroded; plain circular dish with no visible decoration.

Cooking Pot
Notes: Roman - found in head area

Notes: Black with a white stripe
'Zone' decoration - white band (0.4 cm wide), impressed around diameter. Rest of bead appears to be silver that has a black layer that flakes off. Silver gilt can be scratched off.
I. C. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
S. Goldstein - originally a purple glass tat has weather in these layers. The white band is a "trail"
Notes Reverse: [continued from front]
Guido, p. 6 "(4) Bands: straight trails applied around the circumference."

Material: Carnelian
Notes: Orange 10 R 4/8 "red"
Length: 0.57; Diameter: 1
I. B. 2. e (Circular perimeter, Short, Bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Carnelian (quartz)
Notes: Orange, mottled, dark 10 R 4/8
I. B. 1. c. (Circular perimeter, Short, Convex cone profile) (Beck, 1928) - but uneven

Material: Carnelian quartz
Notes: Orange 2.5 YR 5/8 "red"
I. B. 2. f. (Circular perimeter, Short, Truncated bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Quartz (Carnelian)
Notes: Orange - striped, light + dark 2.5 YR 5/8
I. B. 2. f (Circular perimeter, Short, Truncated bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Quartz
Notes: Clear
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928) though irregular
Perforation not in center.

Notes: Black - flakes off, silvery grey (gilded?)
I. C. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.6; Diameter: 0.55; Perforation diameter: 0.2; Type VI, Medium large
Group XXV, Mulberry Beads, Beck pp. 26-7, cf. Fig. 23, A. 3. b
S. Goldstein - made by being blown into a mold

Finger Ring
Notes: 1.9 cm. diameter; 0.4 cm. thickness
Small projections which held (?) bezel

Material: Glass (?) faience
Notes: Turquoise
I. C. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.5; Type VI. b
Looks like a melon bead but no evidence of gadroons

Material: Glass (?)
Notes: Mottled green, on a creamy background speckled in 2.5 Y 4/2 "Dark grayish brown"
I. B. 1. c (Circular perimeter, Short, Convex cone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Convex cone but not perfectly
Perforation: 0.45; Type VI. a

Scarab Bead
Stratum: BA04, 5, 6
Material: Faience
Notes: Glazed steatite or limestone
Carved first, then glazed
Byzantine
Notes Reverse: Is this glazed?
Bluish stuff in crevices. White stone (8 N 8 Very light gray)

Scarab Bead
Material: Faience
Period: Probably Byzantine tomb
Notes: Length: 0.85 cm; Width: 0.63 cm.; Height: 0.47 cm.
Underneath area is flat with two gashes that may be attempts at seal carving.
Present color 5 GY 7/1 "light greenish gray"
Associated objects - beads, 719 scarab
Notes Reverse: Associated Objects:
Bead 704, bead 716, bead 717, nail 718, scarab bead 719, scarab bead 720, bead 722, bead 723, bead 724, bracelet fragment 725, bracelet fragment 754

Cup or Beaker Base

Material: Carnelian quartz
Notes: Orange 2.5 YR 4/8 "red"
I. D. 2. f. (Circular perimeter, Long, Truncated bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Glass / stone (banded agate)
Notes: Brown tones, cream, tan, grey striped 10 YR 7/1 + 4/2
I. D. 1. b (Circular perimeter, Long, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation Type III, Single cone

Notes: Black - flakes off; translucent green with some silver gilt on one part 5 6 7/8 "Light green"
I. B. 2. e (Circular perimeter, Short, Bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length: 0.55; Diameter: 1

Bangle Fragment
Material: Bone
Notes: Diameter: 3.6; Circumference 6.25; Flat inner side: 0.4
Rough surfaces; no decorations; what kind of bone is this?
Infant's bangle
Notes Reverse: Loculus 9 contained the disturbed skeletal remains of one adult
704-717 bead, 718 nail, 719-720 scarab beads, 721 vase fragments, 722-724 beads, 725 bracelet fragments (these)

Juglet
Obj. Reg. No. 736a

Ornament (?)
Notes: 2 pieces
Very corroded; tube - outer bronze core; inner paste
Can't discern what object is
Ca. 4.0 x 1.06
Could be fragment of a kohl tube
Small metal wavy strip 2.9 x 1.76

Notes: 2.5 cm. diameter x 0.9 thickness at widest part
A delicate stirrup-type

Period: Early Roman
Notes: Amber colored
Child's Bangle
Where is this in locus list?
Notes Reverse: See card 587

Necklace
Period: No notation of 12
Notes: Broken
Notes Reverse: Similar to Objects (Petrie), [vol. 42], pl. III 41 + p. 4 (XIIth Dynasty + Ptolemaic to Coptic period; Roman occupation of Egypt)

Incense Shovel
Period: Pre-Arabic (Pre-Islamic), Byzantine body sherds, Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes Reverse: Similar to a specimen in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Dated to the 3rd-5th century A.D. Its description is as follows: "Used for burning incense or for receiving the ashes from sacred lamps, were use in both Christian and Jewish rituals."
Also similar to AUAM object 71.670

Earring
Notes Reverse: 1.5 cm. diameter
Stone missing
Drawn from front, back, sideways.
Compare openwork with earrings in case at Department of Antiquities
cf. Department of Antiquities J 26 41.102b
Locus: Loculus with burial; Byzantine tomb
Associated Objects:
Bronze incense shovel 752, bronze tub 735, iron key fragment 756, gold earring 750, bronze ring 751, bead 757, bead 578
"The stamped open-work design has a basic arch with a 'D'-shaped perforation; two short vertical projections are delineated between each arch."
Back - cup - much soldered, doily put on separately.
8 cut outs
Wire affixed on back with small loop, drawn across cup back bent outward and back with smaller end fastened into loop and cut-out work

Bangle Fragment
Notes: Incomplete
cf. 725
Notes Reverse: Disturbed skeletal remains of one adult
704-717 beads, 718 nail, 719 scarab bead, 722-724 beads, 725-754 bracelet fragments.

Hollow Rod
Period: Pre-Arabic (Pre-Islamic), Byzantine body sherds
Notes: Probably from a necklace or bracelet.
cf. 762, about same size

Period: Byzantine, Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: Square
Probably not finger ring.

Arabic (Islamic) Lamp Fragment

Decorated Plaster
Material: Plaster

Perforated Stone
Stratum:4
Notes Reverse: Robber trench

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), possible Early Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Allocated to: AUAM 71. 248

Notes: Complete
11.94 grams
Diameter: 2.4 cm.

Necklace Fragment
Notes: 2 cm.

Figurine Fragment
Notes: Figurine fragment of a horse or camel rider.

Cosmetic Spatula or Writing Stylus
Notes: Slightly bent.
10.8 cm. long x 0.87 cm. spatula width
Kohl stick originally on end?
End broken off - could have been writing stylus

Notes: Roman - 343 - 50 Constans I

Thickest part 1.2 cm.
Corroded

Muller Fragment
Notes: 10.25 diameter at base x 11.1 cm. high

Material: Quartz / Carnelian (CAP)
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) dominant, Byzantine, Undistinguished body sherds
Notes: Orange 5 YR 5/8 "yellowish red"
1.35 cm. diameter x 0.75 cm. thick
I. B. 1. b (Circular perimeter, Short, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928) but highly irregular surface

Allocated to: 71.577

Cosmetic Spoon
Notes: 15.15 cm; Bowl width: 0.77
Ornate design above bowl of spoon
cf. 2121

Rubbing Stone Fragment

Complete: 12.17

Notes: incomplete - 2.41 cm. diameter x 1.99 cm.
Actual weight 11.99; Reconstructed weight 12.51

Sickle Blade Fragments - 2 Pieces

Humerus and Bangle
Material: Bone and bronze
Period: Early Roman, Undistinguished body sherds/ objects, Tessera(e)
Notes: Bone = 23.4 cm; Bracelet (Bangle) = 8.15 cm. diameter
Armlet
Notes Reverse: See card 608, 635
Description:
Fastening makes an elaborate design. Narrow wire seems to be wrapped several times around one end, then wrapped around other end leaving space between the two ends; finally the wire is brought int the space and made into a rosette then fastened to opposite finial.

Garment Needle Fragments
Notes: 4 pieces - found in pelvic area or knee
Ball = 1.32 cm. diameter; Reconstructed length = 11.48 cm.

Cosmetic Palette and Lid; Lid = Shell
Stratum: HR04
Material: Shell and alabaster
Notes: 10.2 cm. diameter x 3.15 cm. thick (bowl)

Earring Fragments - 3 pieces
Notes: Largest piece: 1.96 x 1.17 cm.
Notes Reverse: 698 is 1.62 cm. but is bent and could straighten out to 1.65 - they probably are mates.
Associated Objects:
Bracelets 635, 667, 748; Carnelian cameo 649; Bead 680; Rings 679, 747; Needle 668; Cosmetic palette and lid 669; Cosmetic box 671; Glass vessels 726, 727, 728, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744; Earring fragments 678; Ornament 745, Nail 746, Necklace 749
Locus: Loculus 1 - Skeletal remains of two adults (Early Roman Tomb)
670 really looks like the mate to 698. The spere is more rounded (not as bent on the sides); the back wire is bent down as though affixed to the ear and wound around loop of same wire which is affixed to back of foil piece. Again that foil piece appears to be up behind the earring. Between the swirls and the V are two open pin dots. 698 doesn't have these open pin dots. The two hooks on the back fold up for dangles.
Two foil crushed balls don't seem to have any jewelry work on them in crushed state measure 1 x 1
Period: 63 BC - AD 130
"More ornate than 698 with coiled ends placed on a solid piece of metal. A bar-like section is present with a central dot, one on each end. Pendants may have dangled from the bar, cf. 1585. Two fragments of hollow gold-foil balls accompany the find but their relationship to earring is not clear."

Cosmetic Box Handle
Notes: Duck's head shape; cf. object no. 675.
5.46 cm. long

Cosmetic Applicator

Cosmetic Spoon
Notes: Length: 19.5; Spoon bowl width: 0.95
Spoon with Kohl stick on other end.
Sleek lines; rings near where spoon begins

Shell Cosmetic Box with Ivory Lid
Material: Shell and ivory
Notes: cf. object no. 671

Wing & Wing Fragment
Notes: Wings to cosmetic box No. 675

Tail
Notes: Tail to cosmetic box No. 675
cf. Nos. 671 and 676

Earring Fragment
Period: Early Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects, 2 Tesserae
Notes: A pair with 679
Original diameter ca. 1.72 cm.; Widest part. 0.47
Pointed end for insertion.
Notes Reverse: Similar to Lachish IV, pl. 25: 12?, 33?, 46?

Period: Early Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects, 2 Tesserae
Notes: A pair with 678

Notes: Black with yellowish below 7.5 YR 8/4 "pink"
0.7 cm. long x 0.85 cm. diameter
Perforation: 0.4, Type VI a

Allocated to: Lost? (Not in Amman)
Notes: Byzantine, Early Roman

Finger Ring
Notes: 2.4 diameter; 0.4 thickness
Evenly crafted
Cosmetic tool ref. in Meg or Lach.
Inner band, flat: 0.4 cm.

Notes: Delicate iron ring, interesting bezel
2.0 diameter; 1.6 bezel; 0.4 thickness

Cosmetic Applicator
Notes: Length: 9.62

Period: Byzantine, Early Roman body sherds
Notes: Deep bowl; long spoon [with kohl stick on end?]
16 cm. length x 0.9 cm. bowl width
Spoon area is long, 4.32 cm.
Bowl seems folded lengthwise.
May have kohl bulb on applicator end.
Notes Reverse: Is thi a kohl stick with spatula end for mixing paint (cf. Objects [42] pl. XXIII: 36-40 + p. 28 (spatula not same shape))
18th dynasty.

Allocated to: Amman? Lost? (Not in Amman)
Notes: Black with yellow-green spots
Byzantine 12/p

Gaming Piece
Notes: Diameter 2.02; Thickness 0.65
Gaming piece
Eye - type of decoration on convex side
Dark grey, weathered

Gaming Piece
Stratum: JD01
Notes: In 2 pieces which fit together
Notes Reverse: Soil layer inside tomb entrance

Period: Early Roman
Notes: Brown tones; banded agate
I. D. 1. b (Circular perimeter, Long, Barrel profile) (Beck, 198)
Tan, white, translucent stripes
Perforation Type III

Period: Possible Early Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: cf. 714 cleaned
5.3 cm diameter at widest part; photo almost exact size
Ends graduate; wire wound around ends which may be overlapped; slanted striations go completely around body - do not appear to be separately wound wires, perhaps one twisted.
Child's bangle
Notes Reverse: Loculus 8 contained disturbed skeletal remains of one adult.
See card 608.
691 five (5) tiny beads, 692 needle, 693-697 beads, 698 + 699 gold earrings, 700-703 beads, 705 mirror, 706 roman cooking pot, 707-713 beads, 714 bracelets, 715 finger ring, 736a glass juglet
cf. Obj. Samaria, Fig. 105: 10

5 Tiny Beads
Material: Glass (?)
Notes: Average length: 0.19; Diameter: 0.27
Decomposing, gray

Needle
Material: Iron or bronze (?)
Period: Possible Early Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Length: 6.25; Width: 0.17

Material: Quartz Carnelian (CAP)
Notes: Orange with black striations on one side. 2.5 YR 3/6 4/8
I. B. 1. b. (Circular circumference, Short, Barrel profile). (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: Type III, Single cone, not in center

Material: Quartz amethyst (CAP)
Notes: cf. 2677
Lavender 5 P 6/2 "Pale purple"
I. B. 2. f (Circular perimeter, Short, Truncated bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Notes: Black flakes with blue/silver below, flaking to black.
Length: 0.6; Diameter 0.8
I. B. 2. e. (Circular perimeter, Short, Bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Quartz (CAP)
Notes: Clear
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928) but irregular and marred

Material: Quartz carnelian (CAP)
Notes: Orange 5 YR 5/8 "yellowish red", mottled - striped
I. B. 1. e (Circular perimeter, Short, Convex bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

Notes: Mate to No. 670 minus the two gold balls; bent
Notes Reverse: 63 BC - AD 130
The earring now in envelop for 698 looks like 670. The back has a central wire affixed probably at top originally but has come loose, the bottom has a foil-like piece either bent up from bottom or affixed back there to which the central wire is attached with a loop at the end, bent up in such a way that something could dangle from it.
Lower on the same foil-like piece is an open loop or hook obviously for a dangle; and another piece indicating that the loop has broken off. A most interesting back.
The front has a piece extended below the sphere on which is a wire "V" with swirled ends. Single dots of gold mark the top of the swirls, the bottom of the "V" and two ends of the piece.
Center "nipple" in sphere is soldered on in some way solder is not evident.
Below the V and swirls is a piece soldered on (but hard for me to see) and folded back to make backing with loops.
Check with Amman example
"On 1534 + 1562, a flattened strip of gold ca. 0.2 cm. wide is flush against the inside of the disc (at the back). The top of this strip is left thick and it is bent into a small ring with one end placed over or under. The strip projects outwards opposite the dot and bends back on itself to form a loop. the bottom of the strip is twisted gracefully to form a ribbed loop turning back to graduate into a small round wire which is coiled once around the top ring."
"698 is the hemisphere with dot and a fragment of the wire for attachment of the ear. Field archaeologist believed...was mate to 670"

Tear Bottle
Notes: Top + side

Jar

Vase

Bottle

Obj. Reg. No. 735b

Stone Vessel Fragment
Notes Reverse: Tumble from collapse of bath complex

Quern Fragment

Pulley Fragment

Whetstone Fragment
Material: Soapstone
Notes: Size: 6.9 x 5.3 x 0.4

Material: Schist
Notes: Base

Bracelet Fragments - 2
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine body sherds, Late Roman

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) - 1.72 x 1.55 x 0.14 cm.

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), few Byzantine
Type: Ayyubid/Mamluk
Notes: 4.35 cm. long; 0.6 cm. thick
Slanted striations, imitating wire twists; bulbous finial - thickened but top slightly flattened.
Notes Reverse: Associated Objects:
603 coin; 661 coin; 786 sickle blade; 1021 coin; 787 pin; 811 hook; 812 coral fragment; 813 weight; 836 rod; 837 rod; 838 nail; 867 bead; 868 ring; 869 nail
Locus List: LA (Late Arabic (Islamic) Fill
AUSS XI p. 73
"The C. 5: 2-5 fill contained few stones but was rich in pottery and objects. Several bronze objects were of interest, such as a Christian cross (C:5:4 (888)), a bell (C:5:2 (790)), a coin of Al-'Aziz Muhammad (1216-1236), and two other Mamluk coins (Nos. 74, 196, 203). A coral fragment may possibly be considered indicative of trade with Aqaba."
Fill was man-made "may have served as make-up for the Ayyubid/Mamluk building C. 2: 10 - C. 3: 3 (1968) founded in it, and for the related courtyard hall..."

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes: Green 5G 5/2 "grayish green"
X. D. 2. b (Rectangular perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)

Notes: 1.46 cm. diameter approximately
Umayyad

Nail or Spoon (?)

Period: 6th-7th, Byzantine, Early Roman
b appears to have wire twisted around supposed ends.
Difficult to distinguish
596 cosmetic applicator; 598 Roman cooking pot, 607 spoon (?); 610 Roman jug; 611 bowl fragment; 612 bowl; 613 lamp fragment; 614a bead; 615 button; 616 coin; 617 bead; 618 bead; 619 bead; 620 button; 621 hair needle fragment; 641 bracelet; 642-5 needle fragments; 597 nail; 682 finger ring; 683 iron ring; 729 glass vase
F:6:2 Locus List:
Top layer of loose dirt within central tomb chamber
AUSS XI pp. 117-8
F:6 Chamber tomb with loculi - square and loculi on 3 sides; 3 steps, doorway sealed with flat dressed stone
Square chamber was typical of Early Roman; 9 loculi; some niches with Herodian lamps.
Plundered long ago yet skeletal remains, pottery, glassware; corpse ritual - throwing dirt => loose soil; dirty layer Byzantine. So: Early Roman tomb looted in time when pottery and glassware were not considered valuable, then resealed during Byzantine period by pious individual or government decree.
Loculus - 1 - had skeletons of 5 adults. Each of other loculi had one or more.
Contents:
Bracelets, one on humerus 667 from loc. 1, finger rings, glass beads, garment needles, buttons, a small scarab charm, a gaming piece, part of a wooden coffin, and nails.
Most exciting finds were from loose soil at opening of Loc. 1. Eleven (11) glass vases, bronze spatula, glass cosmetic applicator, cosmetic box of shell (ivory lid, swans neck, wings, tail).

Decorated Object (?) - 2 Pieces
Notes: If complete would be approx. 7.8 cm. square x 0.15 cm. thick

Jug
Notes: Roman - restored; terra sigillata
12 cm. high x 8.9 cm. diameter

Bowl Fragments
Notes: Approximately 6.7 cm. high x 9.8 cm. diameter

Bowl
Notes: 6.7 cm. high x 9.8 cm. diameter

Lamp Fragment
Notes: 7.9 cm. long x 5.7 cm. diameter

Obj. Reg. No. 614a
Notes: Black, flaky with blue iridescent underneath
0.9 cm. diameter x 0.8 cm.
I. C. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928); close but irregular, with indentations going into one side of perforation

Lamp
Obj. Reg. No. 614b
Notes: 8.25 cm. long x 5.8 cm. diameter

Button
Material: Serpentine
Notes: 2.5 cm. diameter x 0.9 cm. thick
Notes Reverse: Perforation: 0.37 cm.
5 GY 4/1 Dark greenish gray
Spindle whorl ?

Obj .Reg. No. 617
Period: 7th-6th, Byzantine
Notes: Mottled carnelian colors, 2.5 YR 5/8 4/8
1 cm long x 0.8 cm. diameter
I. C. 6 bd (Circular perimeter, Standard, Convex profile with one concave end) (Beck, 1928)

Period: 7th-6th, Byzantine
Notes: Beetle-shaped
5 Y 8/1

Notes: Green, silver x pale yellow
Molded bead whose ends are cut in an obvious way.
Gilt glass beads - hollow cane of glass, cover with gilt, add more glass on outside + press into shape.
This seems to be silver gilt.
I. C. 1. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
Or, see Guido, p. 8 "Drawn beads" - bicolored

Spindle Fragment

Amulet
Material: Frit

Spindle Needle

Kohl Stick
Notes: 10.5 cm.; Bulb diameter: 0.40
Stave decorated with fine rings
Corrosion obscures

Needle Fragment
Notes: 6.5 cm. long x 0.43 cm. diameter at widest

Needle Fragment

Needle Fragment
Notes: 6 cm. long x 0.47 cm. wide at large eye

Notes: 8 cm

Notes: 5.62 cm. long x 0.45 cm. diameter at small eye
cf. 627

Notes. 5.4 cm.

Tripod Mortar
Notes: 18 cm. diameter
Notes Reverse: Soil layer inside tomb entrance on floor

Tripod Mortar
Notes: 29 cm. diameter

Period: No pottery, Early Roman
Notes: 5 cm. diameter approximately
Notes Reverse: Skeletal remains of two adults + one child lay in disarray over floor of loculus.
# 7 No pottery; This bracelet and Carnelian cameo (649)
# 12 Then many objects: bead (black) 680, ring 679, humerus and bracelet 667, garment needle 668, cosmetic palette and lid 669, earring fragments 670, glass tear bottle 726, cosmetic box 671, earring fragments 678, glass bowl 727, glass vases 728-744, ornament (?) of two pieces 745, nail 746, bracelet 748, necklace 749
Loculus 1 - see notes on 608
Description:
Damage shows a single wire base (approximately 2 cm. diameter); this is wrapped or coated with a material that is now white and crumbly, and made into a round bangle. Two (two five perhaps) wires are wound around body makin a spiral. Fastening appears to have center base wire overlap the others in 5 turns to complete the bangle. The body of the bangle becomes gradually narrower towards the fastening. The largest of the fastening turns measures ca. 0.75 cm. in diameter. While the opposite side of the bangle measures ca. 0.95 cm. in diameter. This bangle is probably a larger and more illustrative model for many others - in bronze with striations imitating wire twists, in glass with ridges imitating same, in silver and bronze more delicately made with only single wire.

Notes: Aelia Capitolina, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, A.D. 161-169

Notes: Roman (2nd or 3rd Century)

Earring (?)
cf. one in case in Amm.[an?] museum. Crescent is hollow, marks of hammering gold foil
Notes Reverse: Delicate + fragile gold foil
"A fragment ca. 3.5 cm. long of the top section of a large lunate earring. The body of the original piece was obviously composed of gold foil shaped around a paste filling. Marks of the hammering of the gold foil are visible. This fragment has the top ends of the crescent abruptly narrowed into wire, the pointed ends of which could be inserted into the pierced earlobe and crossed over each other, and finally affixed by twists."

Plain bangle with two ends - overlap ca. 0.5 cm.; end 0.3 cm. diameter wire
No distinguishable markings
Infant's bangle

Spindle Fragment
Fragment

Spindle Fragment
Allocated to: AUAM 71187
Notes: 6.55 cm. long x 0.71 cm. diameter
Fragment

Notes: Incomplete
2.28 diameter x 0.78 cm.
Actual weight 9.39; Reconstructed weight 11.58

Notes: Incomplete
2.32 diameter x 2.1 x 2.19 cm.
Actual weight 11.22; Reconstructed weight 11.95

2.35 diameter x 2 cm.

Intaglio
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities (Impression AUAM 71.832)

Sprinkler Dropper

Trefoil Pitcher

Architectural Fragment

Vessel Fragment - Base (?)
Notes: Probably lost

Whetstone Fragment
Notes: Size 6.5 x 4 x 1.6

Stratum: 11 (HR01)
Notes: Translucent light green / translucent pale yellow with gilt pressed on 2.5 Y 8/6
1.2 cm. diameter x 1.1 cm. thick
I. C. 1. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
See Gilt glass beads..."no additional glass added on top of the gold leaf fused to surface." This is now coming off
Beck, p. 68

Notes: Byzantine - 1.5 x 1.34 x 0.15 cm.
395-423 Honorius

Notes: Translucent lapis-blue with fine white stripes, closest color 5 PB 3/2
I. B. 1. b (Circular perimeter, Short, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
Probably a cane bead; striations are "pulled bubbles' not intentional. S. Goldstein

Sickle Fragment

Holed Object
Period: Late + Early? Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, 7th-6th

Bell
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine

Lamp Fragment
Notes: Coin No. 581 found inside this lamp

Notes: Found inside Byzantine lamp No. 580
Arabic (Islamic) coin - 1.69 x 1.67 x 0.13 cm.

Fragment of ?

Gaming Piece
Notes Reverse: Pre-construction leveling

Tacks
Allocated to: Lost? Amman?
Notes: Heads approx. 1. cm. diameter

Bangle Fragments
Stratum: 09, 10
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes: 5 pieces, "b" is broken into 2 making 6 pieces
No measurements; a, b, d about same size (0.5 thick); c + e about 0.3 cm thick.
Very badly rusted
a + b have "knot" perhaps; e has remains of cloth
Notes Reverse: Associated objects:
543 bronze fibula (cruciform); 544 ivory fragment; 559 earring (ring type); 586 tacks; 588 two earrings (gold pen. rings); 590 bead; 591 bead; 593 bronze fibula (cruciform)
Locus list:
Considered a sealed locus
8 individuals buried
2 skulls found in situ, other remains were disturbed by reburials
Locus List Continued:
F:4:5 North balk grave chamber (592 bracelet [ONLY])
F:4:6 Loculus extending from floor eastward (752 incense shovel; 753 earring; 750 earrings; 751 ivory ring (plain))
F:4:7 (759-761 glass bracelets)
AUSS XI p. 124:
Rectangular Shaft Tombs Type 4
Shaft => Capstones => Recesses => Loculi
"Each of the two side recesses contained a grave which was found covered by both dirt and large capstones. Clearance of the south grave revealed that nine bodies had been placed in it, one atop the others, over an extended period of time. 17 [17 ... tomb (disarray) repeatedly opened for secondary burials.] Earrings, bracelets, and two brooch-like ivory fibulae were among the objects associated with the burials. In clearing the north grave chamber the remains of four bodies, two gold earrings, an ivory ring, and a bracelet were found. The east end loculus contained the remains of three skeletons, an incense shovel, two gold earrings, a large copper ring, and part of an iron key." West end - ceiling fall - small skull fragments of young child. "Four glass bracelets were found intact..." Roman date: fibulae + incense shovel. Pottery Byzantine sherds; Tomb cut during Roman period => family tomb into beginning Byzantine.

2 Earrings
Notes: Complete
1 = 1.5 cm long x 1.3 cm wide
1 = 1.6 cm long x 1 cm wide
Bronze fibula: 543, 593
Ivory fragment: 544
Earrings: 559, 589
Tacks: 586
Bracelet fragment: 587
Locus: South grave chamber, Byzantine tomb
"A pair of gold penannular earrings with single loops in each end that have been intertwined. The measurements of the earrings which are now slightly bent are 1.5 cm long by 1.3 cm wide (4.31 circumference) and 1.6 cm long by 1 cm wide (4.48 circumference)."

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) body sherds, Byzantine, Undistinguished body sherds
Notes: 1.39 cm. diameter. 0.5 cm. thick
Could have been suspended by a wire
Notes Reverse: cf. Objects in Daily Use [42], pl. viii: 131 + p. 10

Material: Faience - decomposing greenish tan
Notes: Mineral coating; material consequently indistinguishable.
Length: 1.15; Diameter: 1.27; Perforation: 0.51, Type VI b
I. C. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
5Y 6/3

Material: Faience-decomposing
Notes: Mineral coating; material consequently indistinguishable. Originally probably turquoise blue
Perforation: 0.4, Type VI a
Melon bead with approximately 13 gadroons

Period: 7th-6th body sherds, Byzantine
Notes: 4.85 cm. diameter at largest point.
In fine condition, delicate; wrapped wired at ends crossing over, making two twists on each. (space between twists is 0.5 cm.)
Could be fastened permanently; wire gradually thickens after fastening; no markings
Notes Reverse: 3 individuals buried in this locus.
a "sealed" locus
only object.
Confusion with report AUSS, see back of card 587
cf. Petrie, Obj. D. U., pl. II: 27; V: 76
Macalister, Gezer, Pl. CXVIII: 1

Fibula
Period; Late Arabic (Islamic) body sherds, Byzantine, Undistinguished body sherds
Roman
New bronze pin added - original pin fragment available
Notes Reverse: Similar to Objects in Daily Use. [42], pl. XVIII: 21-5, + p. 23 (3-4 or Byzantine -6 century)
QDAP, vol IV, nos. 1 +2, 1934 "Cemeteries & a 'Monastery' at the YMCA Jerusalem" J. H. Iliffe, p. 72, Fig. 1

Notes: Roman - found between loculi 2-3
8.5 cm. long x 6.3 cm. diameter x 2.4 cm. high

Notes: Roman - found between loculi 5-6
9.65 cm. long x 6.8 cm. diameter x 2.4 cm. high

Cosmetic Applicator
Notes: Yellow - found between loculi 4-5 leaning against the face of the loculi.

Small Nail
Material: Bronze (?)
Period: Few 7th-6th, Byzantine, Early Roman
Notes: 1.4 cm long

Cooking Pot
Period: Early Roman I - II
Notes: Roman - found upside down lying on the surface 1.4 m. from loculi 4-5 and 1 m. from the end of loculi 2.
Complete except for a 6 cm. break on the rim.
Approximately 21 cm. diameter x 15.5 cm. high

Vessel Handle Fragment

Notes: Arab (Islamic) - 1.64 x 1.88 x 0.15 cm.
Ayyubid

Notes: Black - 2.6 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm.
Notes Reverse: Assoc.
Game stone
Pottery Base
1034 Bronze Ringlet
Desc.
Bluish black, gold flecks
Ridged design with indentations between each ridge. Maybe stylized twists from metal prototype (wire twists)
"The remains of the structure itself, together with literary evidence of a Christian community at Hisban is a Byzantine Christian Church."
"The evidence in all of the Ayyubid/Mamluk levels in A. 6 indicated domestic reuse of the Byzantine Church features as living space."

Notes: Possibly Arabic (Islamic); perhaps Jewish (??)
1.6 cm. diameter x 0.15 cm. thick

Notes: has large head
4.9 cm. long; head = 2.95 cm. diameter

Weight (?)
Material: Stone - quartz(?)
Notes: Stone is translucent
52.32 grams
Notes Reverse: Probable occupational debris

Material: Ivory or bone
Notes: 5.7 x 0.6 cm

Sculpture Fragment
Material: Sandstone

Notes: Gray-black; flakes off 5Y 6/1 "gray"
1 x 0.7 cm

Material: Quartz - Carnelian
Notes: Orange 5 YR 6/8
0.8 x 0.35 cm.
L. A. 2 [Irreg. pref. roughly ground; beads ground or chipped over greater part of surface]
Altho uneven, it resembles a roughly cut I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928).

Earring Fragment
Period: Possibly Byzantine body sherds

Material: Schist
Approx. 1 cm thick
Notes Reverse: Kirbat al Kerak Byzantine Church
Vessel with jug handle Pl. 49:13
MMMN Fig. 34, Pl. 133 (7th or 8th Century A.D.)

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) - 2 cm. diameter x 0.11 cm.

Arabic (Islamic) Strainer Juglet

Container
Period: Byzantine, Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes:5.6 x 1.9 cm

Iron Fragment

Architectural Fragment
Notes: Probably fragment of an acanthus leaf from a column capital.

Notes Reverse: Assoc. obj. 549 nail
Description:
8.7 cm. long
Flat inside. Corroded but chevron designs perhaps engraved on rounded side, at least at intervals.
Ends are broken off. Were probably flattened.
Cleaning by G. N (8/8/78)
One chevron "band" is 1.4 cm. Space after that is 2.5 cm.
Gray-to-black surface soil
"The loos brown-black soil covered all four squares to a depth of ca. .10-.60 m. Small finds from Stratum 2 included objects of glass, bone, shell, plaster, and metal."
Site was a "pilgrimage and/or trade station under Aybak, the 1212-1239 Ayyubid governor of the Belqa who was an energetic builder of such stations." Yet Area B itself would not have been the site of new construction during this Ayyubid occupation, and it may hav served only as an access area for the rebuilt gate in Hael D. 1:4c" 410-1200 occup. gap in Area B
AUSS XI, pp. 42-3

Notes: Black - 0.6 x 0.5 cm.
I. D. 1 b. (Circular perimeter, Long, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928).

Container Fragment
Material: Tin (?)
Notes: Broken in 4 pieces
Restored

Ring Stone
Material: Copper, stone, or faience (?)
Ringstone?

Cotter - Pin

Notes: Roman - 1.5 diameter x 0.18 cm
375-92 Valentinian II

Material: Unbaked Clay
12.61

Notes: 2.25 cm. diameter. Incomplete
Actual wieght - 11.10, Reconstruct. 11.62

Fibula
Period: Byzantine body sherds
See Description for 593

Needle (?) Holder Fragment
Notes: Disintegrating
Length: 2.5 cm; Diameter: 1.23; Hole: 0.44

Lamp Fragment
Notes: Arabic (Islamic)
12.1 cm. long
Lamp in which coins Nos. 446-509, 1009-1010 were found.

Period: Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: Broken, fragment.
1.8 diameter; 0.4 thickness

Sculpture Fragment
Material: Marble

Material: Probably decomposed translucent glass cf. # 100
I. C. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
One protrusion of glass at hole's outer edge, cf. # 100
N/7 irred.

Notes: Head mostly broken off

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, 7th-6th
1.6 cm.
Fragment of lunate

Material: Glass - burned?
Notes: Black
0.65 x 0.4 cm.
Broken now

Spindle

Sickle Blade Fragment
Notes: 10.45 cm. long x 3 x 9.5 cm.

Material: Silver on bronze
Notes: 1260-77 Al-Zahir Bibars (Mamluk)

Material: Silver on bronze
Notes: 1257-59 Al-Mansur Nur Al-Din 'Ali (Mamluk)

Material: Silver on bronze
Allocated to: Department of Aniquities
Notes: 1260-77 Al-Zahir Bibars (Mamluk)

Notes: 126-77 Al-Zahir Bibars (Mamluk)

Notes: 1240-49 Al-Salih Ayyub (Ayyubid)

Allocated to: Department of Anitquities

Allocated to: Department of Antquities

Notes: 1257-59 Al-Mansur Nur Al-Din 'Ali (Mamluk)

Brick
Notes: 28 x 28 x 6 cm.

Material: Glass - scratches
Turquoise 5 BG 4/6 "Moderate blue green"
I. C. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)

Allocated to: 71.800

Material: Soapstone
Notes: 5 x 1.5 x 0.6 cm.

Tessera

Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic); few Byzantine body sherds
Notes: 1.15 cm diameter; 0.15 cm thickness
tiny, infant or child

Gaming Piece - Islamic
Notes: 1.9 x 1.25 cm

Notes: 1.1 cm

Rod
Notes: 12 cm; Diameter: ca. 0.35

Hair Pin Fragment

Rod
Notes: 8.2 cm long
Diameter: 1.1
Very corroded, fragmenting

Notes: Head broken off

Cosmetic Spatula / Writing Stylus
Period: Byzantine, Roman
Spatula width: 0.73
Stave broken off

Period: Mostly Late Arabic (Islamic), some Byzantine
Notes: Translucent 5G 6/6 "brilliant green"
A wound bead that has been faceted?
0.7 cm. diameter 0.7 cm. long
L. A. 2 [Irregular beads, perforated + roughly ground,]
Facets are 4 + 5 sided in irregular lengths but not really "roughly" ground

A.D. 250 Herennius Etruscus

Spindle Whorl or Button
Notes: 2.1 cm diameter x 0.8 cm. thick

Clip Dip
Period: Byzantine
Notes: 1.5 cm. wide

Stone Vessel Fragment (?)

Notes Reverse: Second of 4 earth floors in 1st phase of N building

Double-Ended Kohl Stick, Fragment
Notes: 7.7 cm. long; 0.39 diameter
Fragment
Clean

Period: Byzantine, Undistinguished sherds/objects (probably Byzantine)
Color - black, flaky.
I. D. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Long, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Faience with decomposed glaze or silvered glaze? yellowish core.

Coin - Roman
Notes: 1.37 cm diameter

Notes: 1.46 cm diameter

Notes: 5 cm

Hairpin Head
Notes: 5.4 cm
Diameter of stick fragment 0.34 cm.

1/2 Slingstone

Finger Ring
Notes: 2.5 x 2.3 cm
Thickness: 0.3

Notes: 8.3 cm

Coin - Roman

A turquoise melon bead that got squashed in the making?
Burned gray or decomposed
II + IV. C. 1. a (Elliptical + Lenticular perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.5; Type VI a
Melon with approx. 8 or 9 gadroons

Notes:. 3.3 cm

Notes: 4.6 x 5 x 0.8 cm

Carved Disk
Notes: 3.6 x 3.7 x 1 cm.

Handle with Seal Impression

Material: Copper & Lead

Worked Stone ?
Notes: 7.5 x 7 x 3.3 cm.
Very porous basalt, no sign of use

Brick
Notes: 21 x 19.5 x 6 cm

0.26 diameter

Part of a Metal Ring
Allocated to: Lost?
Notes: In two pieces
1 x 0.9 cm
Not entered in EEP's statistics but noted as lost in section of report on Iron Rings, Two Ends

Material: Stone - Basalt

Pendant Fragment
Material: Stone; Serpentine
Notes: Major fragment of a pendant of green stone.
5 G 7/2 + 5/2

Notes: Bent
2.5 x 2.6 cm

Notes: 1.77 cm diameter
Ayyubid

Stratum: 07 (BA03)
Material: Quartz or Carnelian
Notes: Mottled orange with diamond-shaped facets cut on it.
X. C. 2. b. (Rectangular perimeter, Standard, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Corners are cut to make diamond shaped facets.
Perforation Type II

Stratum: BA03
Material: Glass (?)
Notes: Black, broken off
0.8 cm diameter x 0.5 cm thick
I. B. 1. b (Round perimeter, Short, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)

Material: Glass (?) scratches
Notes: Spherical - White
0.6 cm diameter; 0.6 cm length
10 YR 8/4 "very pale brown"
"circuloid" because uneven

Shell Fragment
Material: Shell
Notes: Semi-circular
1.8 cm. across; 0.8 cm. thick
inner diameter. ca. 1.1 cm original.

Coin - Nabataean
Nabataean?

Quern Fragment
Allocated to: Amman? 71.0525?
Notes: 19 x 11 x 6 cm

Weight Fragment
Notes: 3.7 x 3.2 x 3 cm
70.21 + 1/3
Notes Reverse: surface soil

Lock
Notes: 3.7 cm long

Possible Pottery Weight

Carved Stone Fragment
Probably some type of architectural fragment

Tesserae
Allocated to: Lost?

Two Cotter Pins

Stratum: BA05
Notes: Blue
0.55cm long x 0.5 cm diameter
I. C. 2. e. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)

UD
Notes: 6.1 cm long x 2.6 cm diameter

Notes: 2 cm.

Part of a Sickle (?)
Notes: 6 cm long x 2 cm wide

Large Nail

Pin
Material: Bronze (?)

Bullet
Notes: 2.5 cm long x 0.6 cm diameter

Stratum: n.d. clean-up locus
Notes: Black with a white stripe.
Cane "zone"
XLII. A. 1. a. (Button + Toggle beads, Unperforated disc button bead) (Beck, 1928)
1.1 cm diameter; 0.75 cm thick
I. B. 1. b. (Round perimeter, Short, Barrel profile)
Guido, p. 6 "(4) Bands: Straight trails applied around the circumference." Then 'marvered'

Arabic (Islamic) Coin
Notes: 2 cm diameter

Period: Byzantine/ probable Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Gray-black with gold speckles
1.2 cm diameter x 1.1 cm thick
Generally I. C. 1. a (Round perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)
L (Irregular) A. 2. (Ground over whole or part of surface)
Decorated with yellowish blobs flush to gray surface 10 YR 8/6 "yellow"
N/4 "dark gray"

Fossil Snail
Notes: 4.2 x 3.75 cm wide

Fossil Shell
Notes: 3.1 cm long x 2. cm wide

Seal Impressed Handle
AUAM 71.067
Notes: 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm.

Notes: 0.9 cm at widest
Ayyubid

Period: Early Roman, Late Hellenistic, 7th-6th
Notes: Early Roman pottery context
Broken in two pieces
2 cm - 1.6 cm.
May be fragment of an earring of undetermined style; 3.2 cm long, a graduated bulbous end.
There is another object with this number in the card file from 1968 labeled "possible coin"
Notes Reverse: cf. Objects in Daily Use [42], pl. ix: 202 + p. 13 (late 1st century B.C.)

Pendant
Material: Stone (Serpentine?)
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, Early Roman, possible Hellenistic, 7th-6th
Notes: Green 5 GY 6/1
2.9 cm long x 1.4 cm wide x 0.5 cm thick

Fossil Shell
Notes: 2 x 1.7 x 0.8 cm thick

Tesserae

Notes: 1.7 cm diameter outside
0.5 cm thick

Notes: 7.1 x 6 cm

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) dominant, few Byzantine
Notes: Child's bracelet
Does not close - 3.5 cm
Notes Reverse: Associated Objects: 404 nail; 403 ring; 519 balance weight; 551 sling stone
Ayyubid/Mamluk soil fills in C4
Description: One flat end, other is broken off; cannot tell how long or original piece was - present one is 10.5 cm
Style is like 155, measurements could have been about the same
Decoration: slanted striations (imitation of glaze? or twisted wire?) Flattened finial has a design but hard to see because of corrosion; needs cleaning and drawing.
After first cleaning design is still not distinct; looks like a stamp.

Broken Button (?)
Material: Ivory (?)

Piece of Glazed, Fused Material

UD
Notes: 7.4 x 5 x 0.7 cm.

Piece of a Muller

Allocated to: 71.057

Roman Coin
253-60 Valerian I

Notes: 1.15 cm diameter x 0.15 cm. thick

Notes: 3 cm

Knife Guard
Material: Bronze (?)
Period: Byzantine, Early Roman, Possible 6th-7th
Notes: 5.5 cm x 1.6

Small Musket Ball

Notes: 1.5 diameter x 1.1 cm thick
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid Profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation, Type III, single cone. 0.42 at larger end.
Black with fine silver striations going across "width" (at right angles to axis) and many closely placed grey spots.
At first examination I thought this was a "Cane Eye Bead" as described by Beck p. 62-65.
S. Goldstein prefers "splash decorated", where the wound bead is rolled in a dish of glass chips of different colors, re-heated, melted into the surface. This sounds like Beck's "Impressed glass crumb beads", p. 63.
Notes Reverse: (Continued from front)
When submerged in acids for cleaning (nitric + acetone) the caned spots turned blue, red, yellow, + white (large + small)
S. Goldstein says it is not good to put specimens like this in acid. If the point is to preserve them and enhance their colors, then they can be laminated with plastic.
Guido, p. 6, Decoration classified in (14) Mottled which has been "'marvered' (rubbed smooth on marble) into the surface while the glass was still warm"

Muller

Clay Tile
Notes: Shows the impressions of four square objects of equal size.

Pestle
Notes: 6.7 x 5.3 cm diameter
Show evidence of use on bottom.
Drawing 1:2

Roman (4th-6th century)

Sculpture Fragment
Material: Marble (Imported)
Notes: 4.9 cm long; 2.5 cm at widest part

Ring Stone
Stratum: AM02?
S. Goldstein said: rock crystal, cut and polished, feels light, possibly Islamic because Romans did not work with rock crystal very much; held against wheel to make beveled cuts, 3+ cuts which could be a specialized design. EEP

Spindle Fragment.
Notes: Broken originally -- glued together
4 cm long x 0.9 cm diameter

Stratum: n.d.
Material: Quartz, Carnelian
Notes: Carnelian, half darker, 10 R 5/6 4/6 3/6
Red - 0.9 cm diameter; 0.9 cm length
I. C. 1. a. (Round perimeter, Standard, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid profile) (Beck, 1928)

Stratum: n.d.
Material: Glass - translucent, crystal-like
Notes: Length of top: 0.58; Length of bottom: 0.8
White - 0.85 cm. diameter
L (Irregular beads) A. 2. (ground or chipped over whole or greater part of surface)

Stratum: AM02-04
Material: Glass - decomposed
Period: Byzantine, Late Roman, Early Roman, 7th-6th
Notes: 5 sides, flat with hole in the middle
0.5 cm across x 0.4 cm thick
Length: 0.4
5 G 6/2 "grayish green"
XII. B. 2. b. (Pentagonal perimeter, Short, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)

Arab Bomb Fragment

Coin Fragments
Material: Cooper
Notes: No measurements

Coin - Nabataean
9 BC - AD 40 Aretas IV

Arabic (Islamic) Coin

Worked Stone

Material: Stone - Marble (?)
Cylindrical

Bowl

Inscribed Lamp Fragment
Notes: Inscribed lamp fragment. Byzantine Period.
From a "candlestick" lamp.
The remaining letters are Π A C I N meaning "all"

Period: Iron Age
Notes: Mus. No. J12351
I. B. 2. b.f. (Circular perimeter, Short, Double chamfered cylinder profile) (Beck, 1928)
Color tan, polished shiny, 10 YR 7/4 grayish orange
(Worked on some kind of wheel?)

Jug

Dagger

Ostracon
Notes: Published Photo's negative: John C. Trever

Notes: Late Roman, Valentinian II

Material: Schist
Notes: Base of small basalt vessel
Another card exists with this number

Architectural Fragment, Capital Ram Head
Material: Marble

Bowl Rim
Allocated to: N/A

Rattle

Notes: 3.7 diameter; inside 1.8; c. 1.0 cm thick
Probably not finger ring

Spike

Mortar
Allocated to: N/A
Notes Reverse: Soil layer in reservoir fill

Arabic (Islamic) Lamp

Juglet

Hairpin ?
Period: Late (?) Arabic (Islamic)

Cosmetic Spatula
Notes: Length: 14.5; Diameter of rod: 0.36; Spatula Width: 0.50
Notes Reverse: See card for obj. 90

Spouted Jug

Helmet

Door Socket
Allocated to: N/A

Notes: Mus. No. J. 12348
Double dotted lines made by tiny instrument pressed into surface.
I. (Circular) B. 2. e. (Circular perimeter, Short, Bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Color: (greyish cream, mottled), shades of 10 YR 8/2 (very pale orange) + 5 Y 6/1 (light olive gray)
Glazed? decaying surface coming off
A/MA 12/P

Pottery Disk

Period: Iron III
Notes: 2.3 cm diameter; 0.3 thickness
Notes Reverse: Meg (Meggido?) II, 224: 19?

Material: Black Stone
Notes: 6.04 grams
Notes Reverse: Soil layer throughout whole square

Handle
Material: Copper
Period: ? not in list

Material: Copper
Notes: Provincial Roman - Trajan ca. A.D. 107
Published: AUSS, IX (July 1971), 150

Material: Copper
Period: ? not in list
Notes: Diameter: 1.5 cm; Thickness: 0.1 cm

Part of Column

Period: Arabic pt., possibly Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects Tessera(e)
Notes: Dark blue (lapis colored) with gray streak at right angles to axis, thin irregular lines with traves of light blue in center.
I. C. 2. f. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Truncate bicone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Decoration classification: XLVII. A. 1. a. Zone bead, Beck, pp. 46-66
cf. Fig. 68, Cumae 700-600 BC
A wound bead with a "trail" of white applied by dipping wound bead into stripe piece.
Notes Reverse: Guido - p. 6
Would classify this as Decoration (4) "Bands: Straight trails applied around the circumference."

Saddle Quern

Rhodian Jar Handle
Notes: Inscription: ONAΣI[
Reisner, Samaria I. p. 312, lists: No. 62. ONAΣIOIKOY; Samaria III, p. 383: ONAΣIMOΣ, ONAΣIOIKOΣ as potters

Jar Rim, Decorated

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk (1250-1517)

Notes: Roman coin, smashed
3rd century A.D.

Notes: Phoenician Coastal City
Well preserved coin
Tyre 96/5 B.C.
Published: AUSS, IX (July 1971), 149-150

Material: Bone - ivory?

Pin
Notes: Probably not jewelry or cosmetic piece

Notes: Justinian I, AD 527-565

Double-Ended Kohl Stick, Fragment
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Roman
Notes: Bent; Length: 8.12; Diameter: 0.31
MAM IRON (Mamluk, Iron)
Notes Reverse: ? See card for obj. 90

Notes: Diameter: 2.73 cm; Thickness: 0.90; Hole: 0.26

Period: Roman, Greek (if 46)
Notes: Original Length: 12.86 cm
Spatula Width: 0.56
AMA HELL (? Hellenistic)

Ornamental Spindle Fragment
Notes: Length: 10 cm; Diameter: 0.71

Broken Ring
Stratum: In balk
Notes: Diameter: c. 1.8 cm; Thickness: 0.15 cm

Inscribed Handle

Bowl Rim

Material: Faience - decomposed?
Notes: Gray 2.5 Y 8/2 "white" tho mottled yellowish
Perforation: 0.42, Type VI a

Handle, part of Bone

Whetstone Pendant
Material: Red Granite
Notes: Worn as pendant in field with scythe

Unfinished Bead
Stratum: AM02-3
Material: Coral
Period: Arabic (Islamic) pt, possibly Roman, Undistinguished sherds/objects, Tessera(e)
Notes: Probably not related to a bead, but certainly a piece of coral, broken off at one end.
Length: 1.53; Width: 0.64 at broken end where point is, below that width is generally 0.4
Color nearest 10R 4/6 (coral)
J.12349
A/MA ROMN (Ayyubid/Mamluk?, Roman)
Notes Reverse: Petrie, Amulets
p. 27 Coral, Graeco-Roman
p. 52 Properties of Stones "Coral, red. Evil eye and Menstruation, B. ix, Am. 28, Fet. 46
(Books by Italian Dr. Giuseppe Bellucci)

Upper Millstone Fragment
Notes Reverse: Possible fill layer on slope for leveling

Door Socket

Corner of a Basin

Handle
Material: Earth

Weaving Pattern Spatula
Notes: Length: 5.9 cm; Width: 2.7 cm, Thickness: 0.27

Pin / Hook ?
Period: Iron 3, Iron 2
Notes: 12/P IRN (Iron) 2
Notes Reverse: See Gerar [43], pl. XXIV: 11-36 + p. 14

Pin / Hook ?
Period: Iron 3, Iron 2
Notes: 12/P IRN (Iron) 2
Notes Reverse: ? See Gerar [43], p. XXIV: 11-36 + p. 4

Stone Jar Base
Notes: Found on the surface of the Tel

Rubbing Stone
Notes: 5 x 3.9 x 2

Material: Mematite
Notes: 163.31 grams
Notes Reverse: Soil layer in reservoir fill

Horse Shoe

Inscribed Lamp Fragment
Notes: Inscribed fragment from a "Candle-stick" lamp.
The remaining letter is a Phi resembling an omega. The first letter of the word φωc. From the Byzantine period.

Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)

Bowl Fragment

Notes: Impossible to identify

Animal Foot

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Umayyad (661-750)

Sling Stone
Material: Chert Stone

Period: Late (1) + Early Arabic (Islamic), Roman
Notes Reverse: ? See card for obj. 90

Pestle
Notes: 9 x 4.5 x 4
Drawing 1:2

Whetstone Pendant
Notes: Worn as pendant in field with scythe?

Notes: Roman, Honorius, AD 395-423

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Ayyubid (1171-1342)

Double-Ended Kohl Stick, Fragment
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine, Roman

Upper Millstone Fragment
Notes Reverse: Surface soil

Notes Reverse: Similar to Saller: The Memorial of Moses on Mt. Nebo Part 1 - Fig. 32, 8. Part 2 - Plate 126, 19

Period: Painted Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Diameter: 2.3 cm; Thickness: 0.3 cm

Ceramic Decorated Rim
Material: Ceramic

Hairpin
Period: Possibly modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine
Notes: Hairpin?
Part of d-e (doubled-ended) kohl stick
MAM IRON (Mamluk Iron)

Double-Ended Kohl Stick
Period: Roman (?)

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Ayyubid, Al-'Adil, 1196-1218

Notes: Spout
Notes Reverse: Bethany, Plate 85: e.

Inscribed Jar Rim
Notes: C' (= Gaius) BELLICI(US) ZMARAGDI(US)

Stamped Jar Rim
Notes: MAM IRON (Mamluk, Iron)

Cosmetic Pallet
Misc. Obj's - EEP

Note: Impossible to identify

Notes: Blue (lapis - lazuli colored)
I. D. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
One end cut diagonally

Allocated to: Department of Anquities
Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk (1250-1517)

Worked Bone

Allocated to: AUAM 68.194a
Notes: Difficult to identify

Earring / Ring
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Roman (c-2. 9, 109 has this?)
Notes: Nicely cleaned
Diameter: 1.9 cm; Thickness: at widest: 0.4 cm
[Drawn on RHB "rings" p. 1]

Knife Blade

Part of Mortar
Elevation: 2nd meter

Part of a Quern
Notes: Duplicate of No. 146

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk, 1250-1517

Obj. Reg. 171
Notes: Corrosion makes measurements inexact
Diameter outside c. 2.9; Diameter inside 2.1; Height: 0.6

Rhodian Jar Handle
Notes: Reads "E Π I A P A T O Φ A - N E Y Σ"
See Samarie, Vol. III, pp. 379-380.
Ca. 220-180 BC with Helios head.
Reisner, Samaria I p. 313 (IV: 9).

Loom Weight

Incised Piece
Material: Plaster
Notes: Modern Fake

Amulet - Egyptian God "BES"
Material: Frit
Period: Iron Age
Notes: Deep "V" in front covering two-thirds of the body.
cf. Petrie, Amulets, p. 40, XXXIII: 188: h, esp. in blue
cf. age, many during Roman period.
IRN (Iron) 2, some pottery was so date Iron age

Tooth Pick

Part of Ornament
Notes: Burned gray
Probable original inner diameter: 3.4
Probable outer diameter: 5.5
Misc. Obj. - EEP

Clamp
Material: Brass
Notes: Probably not jewelry

Stratum: Not done
Material: Iron?
Notes: Squared-finger ring? Modern fixture?
Length: 2.4 cm; Width: 1.8 cm; Height: 0.3 cm

Tip
Material: Brass

Notes: Gray, mottled N 6/5
I. B. 1. b. (Circular perimeter, Short, Barrel profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation diameter (large end): 0.23
Perforation Type III (Single cone)

Notes Reverse: Latest floor in vaulted room

Spatula
Notes: Not jewelry

Notes: Nabataean, Aretas IV, 9 BC - AD 40
Published: AUSS, IX (July 1971), 150.

Stone Vessel Fragment
Notes Reverse: Water channel system

Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: 5.5 diameter, bracelet
Notes Reverse: Similar to Lachish II, pl. 25:37?; Megiddo II, pl. 226, 6
Associated obj. in locus: 160 iron ring; 161 brass button; 177 faience bead; 187 iron spatula
Courtyard of a house?

Material: Glass - translucent
Notes: Dark blue, 5 BG 4/6 "moderate blue green"
Length: 0.45; Diameter: 0. 66
Perforation diameter: 0.2
Perforation Type VI a

Notes: Cannot identify

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) - Ayyubid, Al-Mansur Muhammad I or II (Hamah Branch) 1191-1220 or 1244-1284

Allocated to: AUAM 68.193a
Notes: Arabic (Islamic) Ayyubid, Hamah Branch 1275/6

Stone Disk

Cosmetic Palet
Stratum: /3
Material: Stone - Marble
Notes: Colour, mottled beige
Length: 4.81 cm; Width Long Side: 3.4 cm; Width Short Side: 2.2 cm; Thickness: 1.03 cm

Sling Stone
Material: Stone - Basalt

Saddle Quern Fragment
Notes: Duplicate of 191

Piece of Fresco
Material: Plaster

Part of Frieze

Material: Coral
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Orange color 2 YR 6/8 "light red"
I. D. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Has silver-colored pin inserted

Roof Tile
Material: Brick

Notes: Mamluk, Al-Mansur Salah Al-Din Muhammad, 1361-1363

Part of a Weight
Notes: 12.36 grams actual weight
Reconstructed weight 25.5 grams (?)
Notes Reverse: Huwwar Surface or fill at top of reservoir

Hair Pin Fragment
Notes: cf. Petrie, Objs Daily Use, Pl. XIX: 35-40

Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Roman
Notes: Length: 11; Diameter: 0.34
Rod with ends broken off

Stratum: Not done
Period: Arabic (Islamic)

Notes: Aelia Capitolina, Antoninus Pius, AD 138

Inscription on Plaster
Notes: [Δ]ANIH[Λ]

Spindle
Obj. Reg. No 154
Stratum: AM02/3
Material: Wood

Double-Ended Kohl Stick, Fragments
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Length: 4.64; Diameter: 0.32; Length: 5.33; Diameter: 0.32
Taped but not together originally at this juncture; yet may be from same object.
Notes Reverse: ? See card for obj. 98

Notes: Corrosion makes measurements inexact.
Outside diameter: c. 2.4; Inside diameter 1.3; Height: 0.5

Stratum: AM02 - Surface soil
Material: Brass
Notes: ca. 2.6 cm diameter
Yulco says this is AD 1870 Italian, on military uniforms

Hook and Ring
Period: Roman, Hellenistic
Notes: Cotter-pin and ring
Attached in antiquity

Elevation: AM03
MAM ROMN (Mamluk, Roman)
J.12366

Material: Faience - glaze is flaking off
Notes: Very small bead, green color, damaged. 10 YR 7/2 "light gray"
I. B. 1. c (Circular perimeter, Short, Convex cone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.4 at large end.

Ram Head figurine

Notes: Gray-mottled N/7 + 6
Perforation: 0.3, Type VI.b

Pyramidion Bead
Period: Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: silvery gray 7.5 YR N/7 "light gray"
X. D. 2.d. (Rectangular perimeter, Long, Truncated cone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation at larger end. Diameter: 0.4; Type III
cf. 29, 33

Notes: Gray-green, damaged, decomposed, probably originally green, translucent, like # 57; 5 G 5/1
Has two holes, one on hole edge, one on outer edge
Perforation: 0.4; Type VI b.

Worked Bone
Allocated to: AUAM 68.68.044
Notes: Part of an inlay?

Notes: Late Roman - Valentinian II, AD 375-392; Honorius (395-423); or Valentinian III (421, 423-455)

Notes: Diadumenian, AD 217-218

Double-Ended Kohl Stick
Period: Possibly modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)

"Arabic (Islamic) Bomb" Fragment

Double-Ended Kohl Stick Fragment
Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) 1, Early (Islamic)
Notes: Length: 5.95 cm, Diameter: 0.39
One end of two-ended kohl stick

Period: Late Arabic (Islamic) 1, Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Length: 7.91, Diameter: 0.35
Mid-section in tact

Bell

Inscription Fragment

Weaving Pattern Spatula
Notes: Length: 7.63 cm; Width: 2.27 cm; Thickness: 0.2
End fragment

Notes: Tiny, red, white core red over, - from cane rod?; 5 R 4/8
I. C. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
For photo see OB 57 (AUAM 68.101)

Material: Faience and Glass
Period: Possibly Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Black with gray striations; 2.5 Y 8/6 "yellow"; coming off (painted)
Black mottled (bead), 3 gray-yellow dots on it
See Beck on Spot Beads, pp. 42 + 63
One of the "simplest form(s) of eye bead"; "one or more large spots of colored glass attached to a matrix of another color"; "left standing above the surface of the matrix" (Beck, p. 63)
Raised spot Eye bead XLCI. A. 2. a.
cf. Fig. 56, Egypt, XVIII th Dynasty.

Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Length: 2.44; Width: 1.08
L. A. 2 (Irregular, chipped over greater part of the surface)
Color: 5 GY 6/1

Notes: plain complete ring
Diameter: 2.3 cm; Height: 0.4 cm

Doll or Statue's Head
Notes: MAM ROMN (Mamluk, Roman)

Arabic Lamp

Allocated to: AUAM 68143
Notes: Arabic (Islamic) one half coin

Material: Opaque Glass
Notes: "Yellow", small, 5 Y 7/6

Period: Possibly Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Green, translucent, cylindrical, 5 G 4/2 or brighter "grayish green"
I. D. 2. b. (Circular perimeter, Long, Cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Small, pin-hole perforation

Period: Possibly Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Ovoid bezel with decoration; can it be cleaned?
Diameter: 1.5 cm; Height: 0.2 cm
Child's ring
Notes Reverse: ? Similar to Megiddo I, pl. 88: 2 (surface)
Megiddo II, pl. 224: 11 (stratum VII - 1350-1100)

Notes: Byzantine, Justin II, AD 572/3

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Umayyad 661-750

Notes: Coin smashed, little or not identification

Notes: Green, small, translucent; 5 G 4/2
Perforation Type VI a, love of glass on inner edge, perforation edge
For photo see OB 68 (AUAM 68.107

Material: Opaque Glass
Notes: "Yellow" 5 Y 7/8
Made from a glass rod or cane

Spindle
Notes: MAM BYZ (Mamluk, Byzantine)

Material: Clay, unbaked
Diameter: 2.6

Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)

Pin Point or Kohl Stick Fragment
Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Length: 4.7 cm; Bulb diameter ca. 0.43
Notes Reverse: End of kohl stick? See Objects of Daily Use [42], pl. XXIII: 30-35 + p. 28 (18th to 19th dynasty)

Crescent Hook / Fibula
Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Fibula bow? EEP

Stratum: Surface
Period: Early Arabic (Islamic)
Notes: Port of a handle?

Double-Ended Kohl Stick Fragment
Notes Reverse: Kohl stick.
See Hazor III-IV, pl. CXCI, 21, 22

Double-Ended Kohl Stick, Whole
Notes: Fine condition
Length: 13.5, Diameter: 0.42, Mid-section length: 1.96
MAM BYZ (Mamluk, Byzantine)
Notes Reverse: Kohl Stick - Gerar pl. 24 + p. 14?
Objects of Daily Life [42], pl XXIII: 45-50, pp. 28 (Roman)

Notes: Length: 13. 5; Diameter: 0.42; Mid-section Length: 1.68
Whole object; good condition, slightly bent
MAM BYZ (Mamluk, Byzantine)
Notes Reverse: Kohl Stick - Gerar, pl. 24 + p.14?
See also card for obj. 90

Mosaic Square
Material: Tesserae

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) Umayyad (661-750)

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Al-Nasir Salah Al-Din Yusuf (Halab Branch) 1236-1260

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Abu 'L-Fida' (Hamah Branch), 1310-1332

Notes: Smashed, not possible to identify

Notes: Procurator - Pontius Pilate AD 31/2
Published: AUSS, IX (July 1971), 150

Possible Coin
Notes: Note: there is another object with the same number which is an earring fragment.

Notes: Gray-green; "Grayish green" 10G 4/2
I. B. 1. a (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid perimeter) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation Type II

Belt Buckle or Mirror Holder
Notes: Outer diameter: 5.2
Inner diameter: 3.05

Rectangular Bone
Stratum: 1/2

Drawing 1:2
Bottom shows use

Spoon Handle
Notes: Length: 6.28; Spoon bowl width: 0.88
Excellent condition; coppery shine
Stamped design not clear
Definite spoon bowl, well hammered.
MAM BYZ (Mamluk, Byzantine)

Notes: Hardware - note in EEP's corpus

Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine 1

Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine
Notes: Length: 10.1, Diameter, 0.39
Notes Reverse: Kohl stick? - Gerar pl. 24 + p. 14?
See card for obj. 90

Upper Millstone Fragment
Notes Reverse: Terrace surface bounded by wall D 2:2 and D.2:3A

Notes: 3.72 long; 2.05 cm. wide; 2.05 cm thick
Color 2.5 Y 8/4 pale yellow

Needle
Stratum: 01; Surface soil

Elevation: Surface
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic) ?

Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Plain complete ring
Diameter: 2.1 cm; Height: 0.3 cm

Amulet

Double-ended Kohl Stick Fragment
Period: Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine
Allocated to AUAM 68.096

Large Nail
Allocated to AUAM 68.097

Material: Stone - Chert
Notes Reverse: Lachish III: The Iron Age and Lachish IV Iron Age - Plates, Olga Tufnell, Oxford University Press, 1953
Av. Diameter - av. 6 cm.
Av. Weight - 256 grams

Pyramidion Bead
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine, Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: cf. 29, 99
Pendant, gray, slightly mottled, 2.5 Y N7/
X. D. 2. d (Rectangular perimeter, Long, Truncated cone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation: 0.3 at large end
Type III Conical

Material: Faience or decomposed corroded glass
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine, Undistinguished sherds/objects
Notes: Broken, gray-yellow
I. C. 2. b (Circular perimeter, Standard, cylindrical profile) (Beck, 1928)
Cut diagonally from rod
5 GY 7/1

Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, 1 Roman
Notes: color: greenish blue; brighter blue band around indentations; closest 5 G 5/2 "Grayish green"
Blue, irregular shape, and flecks of white
I. C. 2. e. (Circular perimeter, Standard, Bicone profile); the indented ridge around the diameter gives this impression

Notes Reverse: Possible fill layer for leveling area

Notes: MAM BYZ (Mamluk, Byzantine)
Fragment of a cosmetic applicator?

Pin
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes: Length: 6.04 cm; Diameter: 0.36
Double-ended Kohl stick, fragment (?)

Hook or Handle
Period: Late + Early Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine

Hook or Handle
Period: Possibly Modern, Late + Early Arabic (Islamic)

Piece of Platter

Notes: Byzantine - Procopius (?), AD 365/6

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk; Al-Zahir Barkuk 1382-1399

Notes: Nabatean, Rabbel II, AD 71-106
Published: AUSS, IX (July 1971), 150

Chain
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine bods (body sherds), 1 possibly I (possibly Iron 1), tess. (Tessera(e))

Horse Shoe Shaped Hook

Notes Reverse: Tumble layer throughout most of square

Cone

Notes: Valentinian II and Victor (Usurper), AD 387

Nail Head

Allocated to AUAM 68.073

Period: Early + Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes: Gray; yellow core 2.5 Y 8/4
Faience decomposed, glaze flaking/coming off
Length 0.8; Diameter 0.85
I. B. 1. C

Pyramidian Bead
Period: Early + Late Arabic (Islamic), possibly Byzantine bods (body sherds), UD (Undistinguished sherds/objects)
Notes: Bead, gray.
X. D. 2. d. (Rectangular perimeter, Long, Truncated cone profile) (Beck, 1928)
Length 1.4; Diameter 0.55
Perforation Type III, Single Cone
Color: Greyish white; on one side dark blue + silver, irregular splotches
Mottled between 7.5 YR H/8-6

Necklace Charm / Pendant
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, Roman, Hellenistic
Notes Reverse: Associated objects in Locus : 17 - Ring; 114 - Coin (1257-9); 3 - Knife blade; 6 - Bronze Pin

Bead / Pendant
Allocated to: lost

Carved Bone Ornament

Notes Reverse: Sub surface soil

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk - Al-Mansur 'Ala'

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk, Al-Ashraf Sayf Al-Din Iynal, 1453-1461

Metal Cap
Period: Early Arabic (Islamic), Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine

(Cosmetic?) Spatula
Period: Early + Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine?
Notes: Flat spatulate end is now folded over itself. Piece is bent as shown.
Original length 10.16 cm Width 1.3 cm

Tag (Armor Scale?)
Period: Early Arabic (Islamic), Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes Reverse: Armor scale - See Hazor III, Pl. CCCLXI, 15

Period: Early Arabic (Islamic), Late Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, Roman

Part of Stone Jar

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) - Mamuk (1250-1517)

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) Al-Zahir Bibars, 1260-1277

Notes: Byzantine, Anastasius I, AD 498-518

Notes: Greek (?)
Published: AUSS, IX (July 1971), 150.

Notes: Arabic (Islamic), Mamluk - Al-Nasir Mahammad, 1293-94, 1299-1309, 1310-41

Notes: Ayyubid; Al-Mansur Muhammad I (Egyptian Branch)? 1198/9

Pottery Disk (Spindle Whorl)
Notes: Pottery sherd used as spindle whorl or loom weight.
Diameter: 6.33 Thickness: 1.05 Hole: 0.3

Game Piece
Stratum: 1/2
Notes Reverse: Sub surface soil

Point / Rod of Pin
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic), Hellenistic, Undetermined
Notes: Length: 4.2 Diameter at widest 0.27

Part of Hook / Finger Ring
Period: Modern? Arabic (Islamic)?
Notes: Flattened inner side
Part of a ring?
Length: 4.3 cm Width: 0.4 cm

Cotter Pin Head

Notes: Not EEP's group of objects for the Hesbon report.

Blade Point
Stratum: Surface
Period: Early Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes Reverse: Arrow head? See Hazor II, Pl. CLXV, 10-17; CXCVI, 10; Hazor III, Pl. CCCXL, 1

Small Chain
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine, Roman

Material: Copper or Bronze
Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic), Byzantine
Notes: Interesting bezel - feat, diamond shape.
Original diameter c. 2.1 cm

Period: Modern, Arabic (Islamic), possibly Roman
Notes: Flattened bezel, oval; at widest part 0.9 cm
Diameter 2.1cm; Height 0.3 cm
Notes Reverse: See Hazor III, Pl. CCCXLVII, 10
EEP does not think the Hazor silver ring is comparable.

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) - Al-Mansur Nur Al-Din 'Ali, 1257-1259

Notes: Little or no identification

Notes: Little or not identification

Stone Jar Handle
Material: Stone - schist

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) Coin - Umayyad (661-750)

Notes: Arabic (Islamic) - Umayyad (661-750)

Notes: Valentinian II, A.D. 375-392

Misc. Glass Bowl

Notes: See reverse
Have S. Goldstein analyse?
Notes Reverse: no info
9 pieces from at least 6 types of glass bangles
1) deep blue, 3 raised added lumps
2) Med. blue flecked with silver, 3 pieces raised lumps
3) cream-colored twist - narrow
4) deep blue, narrow, twist with silver
5) turquoise blue twist, striped with white
6) silver + gray twist