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

Athens National Museum; Prehistoric collection
Total objects in hoard 81
Tool count and frequency 22 (27.2%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 7 total: 1 broad chisel (NM 7650), 3 narrow chisels (7655),
1 drill (7655), 1 double ax (7660), 1 small hammer (7653)
Other objects 3 bent knives (7646-7), 5 fragments of knives or sickles; 6
sickles (NM 7647, 7648), 1 cleaver, 1 hilted dagger, one bent
sword blade (NM 7649), two hydria handles, other vessel
fragments; 2 tweezers, 16 ingots, 36 scrap fragments
Bibliography Wace 1953, Stubbings 1954, Catling 1964, 295
Context and date of Outside Mycenae citadel; next to curved wall in between
discovery
Aegisthus and Clytemnestra tholos tombs; found in 1952.
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard
38. Greek Mainland: Mycenae Mylonas hoard (Argolid): LH IIIB
Mycenae Museum
Total objects in hoard 21
Tool count and frequency 13 (61.9%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 6 total: 1 broad chisel (MM 1344), 1 slender chisel (1346), 4
double axes (1353-7)
Other objects 2 knives (1361-2), 2 awls/engravers (1345, 1347); 3 swords,
1 spearhead, 3 sickles, 2 vase fragments, 1 ingot
Bibliography Mylonas 1962, 406-408; Mylonas 1966, 77, 170
Context and date of Mycenae, citadel; found in a wall; found in 1959.
discovery
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Traditional interpretation Utilitarian
39. Greek Mainland: Thebes hoard from older excavations (Boeotia): LH IIIB
Thebes Museum?
Total objects in hoard ?
Tool count and frequency At least 1, more?
Carpentry/masonry tools 1 double ax?
Other objects Spearheads, arrowheads, model wheel, spatula
Bibliography Spyropoulos 1972; Paschalidis 2007
Context and date of
discovery
Unknown
Likelihood of hoard Unknown
40. Cyprus: Pyla-Kokkinokremnos bronze hoard (Larnaca): LC IIC, 1230-1200 BC
Larnaca and Nicosia Museums
Total objects in hoard 43+
Tool count and frequency 2 (4.8%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 2 total: 2 drills
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