Talk:Heshbon

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Tell-Hisban has earliest occupation starting at about 1250 to 900 bc with possible Reubenite habitation, as anwalled village.

Other unidentified nearby sites such as Tell al Umayri, and Tell Jalul give early pottery signs of occupation from the middle, and late bronze ages, and up into the Iron age. These two are the more likely contendors for the Heshbon of Sihon's time.

However, Tell-Hisban is the same Heshbon as that which Mesha the king of Moab mentions (c.800's bc). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.225.65.89 (talk) 03:48, 20 April 2006

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Big mess: two, possibly three different topics/towns mixed into one
Lead & article: we need a clear distinction between Two, maybe 3 different sites! So, what is the topic of this article? Biblical Heshbon (if we stay focused on the tell: Israelite the earliest, but NOT Sihon's), the classical towns with similar names from ancient sources, or the concrete Tell Hisban with whatever it is known to contain? The confusion is deadly, it makes the page be largely misleading and close to useless. Arminden (talk) 19:34, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) the as yet not discovered Bronze Age Heshbon "of Sihon",
 * 2) Josephus's Herodian Esebonitis (Machaerus? Amathus? Gadora, identified with Tell Jadur at Salt?), and
 * 3) the classical city at Tell Hisban.