{"id":344,"date":"2017-02-08T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multi.madabaplains.org\/hisban\/?page_id=344"},"modified":"2017-10-16T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T22:04:15","slug":"tall-hisban-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/visitors\/tall-hisban-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall Hisban Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tall Hisban Highlights<\/h1>\n

View Madaba, Mt. Nebo, the Jordan Valley, and the plains of Moab. On a clear day, see the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Experience a typical archaeological tall.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Enter a residential cave complete with Roman arches, columns and cisterns.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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See the east wall of a massive Iron Age water reservoir.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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See the northeast corner tower of the Ammonite citadel in Hisban. Follow the perimeter walls of what may have been a Hellenistic farm estate.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Get an idea of what a small-town Roman stairway and acropolis might have looked like.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Other highlights include:<\/h5>\n
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  • Spy the remains of the north wall of a Roman public building, likely a temple<\/li>\n
  • Walk inside the nave of a typical small town Byzantine basilica<\/li>\n
  • Inspect the anteroom, steam room and hot-water oven of a small Early Islamic bath<\/li>\n
  • Tour the official residence of a Mamluk appointed governor of this region<\/li>\n
  • View the remains of an Ottoman cave village along the slope of Wadi Majaar<\/li>\n
  • Get an idea of the process of settlement of the present-day village of Hisban<\/li>\n
  • Contemplate biblical stories linked to this site (Num 21:21-31; Songs 7:4)<\/li>\n
  • Try to figure out what additions Herod the Great made to this summit<\/li>\n
  • Try to figure out the path of the Via Nova Traiana which included Esbous (Roman Hisban) as a way-station;<\/li>\n
  • Picture what a worship service might have been like in the Byzantine basilica;<\/li>\n
  • Imagine what it would be like to take a steam bath in the Early Islamic hammam;<\/li>\n
  • Envision where Saladin might have camped during his visit to this site;<\/li>\n
  • Visualize Mamluk horsemen sallying forth from Hisban to fight the Crusaders;<\/li>\n
  • Think about the succession of imperial world-making projects in this area by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljuks, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Ottomans, and British.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Tall Hisban Highlights View Madaba, Mt. Nebo, the Jordan Valley, and the plains of Moab. On a clear day, see the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Experience a typical archaeological tall.   Enter a residential cave complete with Roman arches, columns and cisterns. See the east wall of a massive Iron Age water reservoir. See […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions\/1081"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madabaplains.org\/hisban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}