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

Carpentry/masonry tools 1 total: 1 chisel
Other objects 6 knives
Bibliography Valmin 1938, 102-103, 368-369, plate
Context and date of
discovery
XXX.5,6,7,9,10,11,12; Branigan 1974, 153.
Room A41; room used by smiths and potters. The chisel was
found in the northeast corner while the knives were from the
room’s northwest corner. 2 Found in 1929-1936.
Likelihood of hoard Possible; knives found together while the chisel was nearby.
Traditional interpretation Assemblage in storage; workshop nearby.
8. Anatolia: Sakçagözü hoard (Gaziantep province, Southeastern Turkey): MBA
Gaziantep Museum (inventory # 13/1/75 to 13/14/75)
Total objects in hoard 15+
Tool count and frequency 4 (26.7%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 3 shaft-hole axes, 1 chisel
Other objects 1 male figurine (another figurine in the Adana Museum may
belong as well), 2 long swords, 8 daggers
Bibliography Summers 1991
Context and date of Said to be from region of Sakçagözü; contextual details
discovery
unknown; found in 1975 or earlier.
Likelihood of hoard Possible
9. Syria-Palestine: Byblos, Deposit D: MBA (19 th century BC)
Total objects in hoard 152
Tool count and frequency 56 (36.8%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 48 total: 27 single/flat axes; 11 axe fragments; 6 chisels; 1
gouge; 3 saws
Other objects 3 awls; 3 knives; 1 scraper; 1 scraper or spatula; 1 spearhead;
1 sword; 8 daggers; 2 pins; 1 hook; 3 blades; 2 silver vessels;
53 ornamental items; 5 miscellaneous items; 18 figurines or
fragments
Bibliography Dunand 1937, 146, 151-2,
Context and date of Deposit D in room E of Building 2
discovery
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Transition from MBA to LBA
10. Crete: Knossos northwest hoard: MM III or LM IA (not after 1600-1500 BC)
Heraklion Museum?
Total objects in hoard 18
Tool count and frequency 10 (55%%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 9 total: 3 double axes, 5 double adzes, 1 broad, long chisel
2 Valmin 1938, 103.
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