Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

different wood- or stone-working tasks. The pairing of broad and narrow chisels
epitomizes the Greek hoards, and its occurrence at Thebes further exemplifies the
conscious arrangement of hoarded implements.
Two metal hoards from the LH IIIC period may contain partial implement sets.
The Kierion-Karditsa cache had two double axes and one broad chisel, missing only a
knife in what would otherwise be a full set. 669 A hoard from Salamis-Kanakia only
contained a narrow and a broad chisel, but a knife was found nearby. 670 The consumption
of two chisel forms at Salamis adheres to a long-held Aegean tradition of purposefully
collecting multiple subtypes of a tool. Both hoards date to the 12 th century, when certain
metal objects are thought to have been in short supply; perhaps it was not possible to
possess a complete craft kit at that time. 671
Cypriot hoard tool kits (Fig. 5.3; Appendix 3): The customary utensils in Aegean
hoards (e.g. double axes, chisels, and knives) are not as common in the eastern
Mediterranean. Characterized by greater diversity than the Aegean examples, Cypriot
assemblages contained deliberate tool kits, which are discernible in the following hoards:
the Pera bronzes, Makarska, Sinda, Mathiati, Brunnen 212 (Enkomi), Trésor de Bronzes
(Enkomi), Gunnis (Enkomi) and Foundry (Enkomi).
It is unclear whether the MC III–LC I Pera bronzes represent an authentic hoard
or looted grave goods compiled together by an antiquities dealer.
669
Kilian 1975, 13, 18, plate 95b.
670
Lolos 2003, 83-93.
671
See Knapp, Muhly, and Muhly 1988 with references for a discussion.
672
Åström 1977-1978.
672
Despite the absence
of any contextual information (other than coming from Pera), the wide variety of the Pera
implements cannot be overlooked, as this element defines a tool kit. The many wood- or
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