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

metal) within the Foundry hoard, the intact and broken carpentry/masonry tools were not
materials to be recycled.
The Enkomi Gunnis hoard is formed entirely by metallurgical, agricultural and
carpentry/masonry implements. One-third of the assemblage is represented by the last
category, specifically four double-adzes, one ax-adze and one flat ax. 679
These six
implements bear distinct traces of usage and damage, yet they are all complete (e.g.
Plates 5.25-7). As there is no prototype for a standardized Cypriot carpentry/masonry tool
kit, the collection in the Gunnis hoard may very well represent an example of one.
The wood- and stone-working tools from the Enkomi Trésor de Bronzes
encompass just under one-third of the hoard. The careful selection of implements makes
this example one of the strongest for arguing that hoard components were chosen and
arranged with a structural principle in mind. The carpentry/masonry tools from the hoard
are one double adze, one hammer-adze, one ax-adze, three drills, one flat adze, one broad
(cold?) chisel/wedge, and one narrow (mortise) chisel (Plate 5.32).
680
These tools are all
whole, and the hoard yielded only one fragmentary implement: a knife broken at its mid-
section. There are signs of use on several objects, and it is conceivable that the hammer-
adze was modified from an ax-adze. The hammer-adze in fact bears resemblance to the
intact ax-adze from the same hoard (Plates 5.32; 4.39). On the manipulated tool, the side
that was formerly an ax end was truncated to create a hammer head, which is slightly
jagged after being severed. The deliberate arrangement of the set is evident from the fact
that numerous tool types are represented with a single copy (similar to the Orchomenos
679 The ax-adze has a crack on one side wall, but it is uncertain whether this damage resulted from postexcavation
activity or the tool was damaged when deposited in the hoard. The published photographs and
drawings fail to indicate this crack.
680 The broad chisel/wedge, two drills and knife are not picture in my photograph. For the publication
drawings of these tools, see Schaeffer 1952, 40 -2, figure 1 and 3.
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