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

Tool count and frequency 76 (84.4%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 29 total: 9 double axes (NM 2541), 14 chisels (NM 2540), 6
small chisels (NM 2605)
Other objects 12 small knives (NM 2550), 1 large knife, 9 awls; 19 sickles,
1 cleaver, 6 swords, 1 spearhead, 2 ornaments, 1 ingot, 2
weights, scrap, sword casting, bronze horse bit; undecorated
bronze strips; two disks with rosettes, gold wire; 5 tweezers
Bibliography Catling 1964, 294-295; Spyropoulos 1972, 8-45.
Context and date of
discovery
Exact provenience is unclear; Tsountas maintained that the
objects were concealed between walls of a prehistoric house
located near the Mycenae lion gate; found in 1890.
Likelihood of hoard Definite; probable two different hoard here
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard?
44. Greek Mainland: Athens Acropolis hoard (Attica): LH IIIB/C
Originally in Athens National Museum; moved to the new Acropolis Museum in 2009
Total objects in hoard 37
Tool count and frequency 29 (78.4%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 24 total: 7 broad chisels (NM 6996-7002), 1 narrow chisel
(7366), 13 double axes (6894-6907), 1 double hammer
(6909), 1 ax-hammer (6908); 1 file (7004)
Other objects 1 knife (6891-2), 1 anvil, 2 plowshares, 1 sickle; 1 cast-hilted
dirk, 2 spearheads, 1 two-handled bowl, 3 round disks
Bibliography Catling 1964, 296; Spyropoulos 1972, 63-78, 92-97, 202-
203; Iakovidis 2006, 145
Context and date of Inside Mycenaean fortification wall on the acropolis; found
discovery
during 1885-1887 excavations.
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard
45. Greek Mainland: Thebes hoard (new): tentatively LH IIIB or LH IIIC early
Thebes Museum
Total objects in hoard 32
Tool count and frequency 14 (43.8%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 6 total: 3 double axes; 2 broad chisels, 1 narrow chisel,
Other objects 3 knives, 2 sickles, 1 bronze cube (anvil?); 1 bronze pestle
(?), 1 bronze socket with four triangular cuts and three rivet
holes; 1 object with various partially melted fragmentary
objects, 17 scrap metal (e.g. sheet metal and blade fragments)
Bibliography Currently unpublished
Context and date of
discovery
Near the Arsenal, at the corner of Pelopidou and Zengini
streets in modern Thebes. 7 Found on March 3 rd and 4 th , 2006.
7 Symeonoglou (1985, 230) discusses site 3, Kadmeia I-11, where ivory and linear B tablets were
recovered. The area also yielded numerous bronze objects (mostly military in nature), including vessels and
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