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

tools. One has a wide, deformed hammer end, likely formed by altering a double adze
(Plate 4.40). The other hammer-adze resembles a manipulated ax-adze, similar to
examples from the Trésor de Bronzes and Mathiati hoard. 678
The Brunnen 212 hammer-
adzes confirm the ability of craftspersons to alter and adapt tools for new purposes. The
fact that two different tools were deliberately re-shaped and gathered into the same cache
highlights their functional value and the likelihood that they were components of a set.
The wood- and stone-working utensils from the Enkomi Foundry hoard are
mostly fragmentary and only form a minor portion of the hoard. Various tool types,
however, indicate the prospect of a limited implement set among a miscellaneous
sampling of metal objects (Plate. 5.31). Conceivable as a tool kit, the hoard’s
carpentry/masonry implements include one complete double ax, one broken trunnion/
lugged ax fragment, two ax-adze fragments, one section of a narrow chisel, two saw
pieces, two knives, and one double hammer (which, in all likelihood, was a double adze
before it was converted into a hammer). The broken ax-adzes are of dissimilar sizes, and
only the ax side of each remains. The preservation of two different ax ends, each lacking
its adze counterpart, suggests that they were purposefully included in the hoard. Even in
their broken state, the ax-adzes retained some functionality; their ends could be used in a
wedge-like fashion. Despite the scrap-like nature of several utensils, the mixture of these
accumulated carpentry/masonry implements is analogous to other Cypriot hoards. A
series of metallurgical implements (one sledgehammer, one pair of tongs, three charcoal
shovels, and two furnace spatula) is perhaps the kit of a smith (akin to the Sinda hoard).
Regardless of the metalworking evidence (smith tools, oxhide ingot pieces, and scrap
678 For an illustration of the ax-adze turned hammer-adze, see Lagarce 1971, figure 17.4 and figure 21a, b.
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