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

Likelihood of hoard Definite
46. Greek Mainland: Orchomenos hoard (Boeotia): LH IIIB or IIIC
Chaironeia Museum (MX)
Total objects in hoard 106
Tool count and frequency 48 (45.3%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 19 total: 7 double axes (MX 501-503, 509, 524, 527, 541), 6
broad chisels (511, 515, 518, 519, 520, 521), 3 narrow
chisels (516, 517, 523), 1 drill (522), 2 saw fragments (544,
582)
Other objects 10 knives (533, 535-7, 542, 545, 547, 554, 564-5, 568-70,
576-77, 579, 580),15 daggers, 4 swords, 2 spearheads, 3
tweezers, 1 fibulae, 13 bronze vessel fragments, tripod
cauldron legs, 18 miscellaneous
Bibliography Spyropoulos 1970; Knapp, Muhly and Muhly 1988
Context and date of Well deposit; found before 1970
discovery
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard
47. Greek Mainland: Kalydon-Psorolithi hoard (Aitolia): LH IIIB or IIIC
Arginio Museum (AM)
Total objects in hoard 14
Tool count and frequency 11 (78.6%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 4 total: 2 double axes (AM 78-9), 2 broad chisels (AM 76-7)
Other objects 1 knife (AM 73); four knives or sickles (AM 69, 70, 71, 72);
2 sickles (AM 67, 68); 1 dagger (AM 74); 1 arrowhead (AM
75); 1 tripod/ cauldron leg
Bibliography Mastrokostas 1965, 343-344; Knapp, Muhly and Muhly 1988
Context and date of Found at the edge of a field, near the banks of a stream, 2500
discovery
meters from Kalydon.
Likelihood of hoard Probable
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard
48. Greek Mainland: Katamachi hoard (Epirus): LH III B/C 8
Ioannina Museum
Total objects in hoard 7
Tool count and frequency 7 (100%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 6 total: 5 double axes (IM 4979-83), 1 socketed chisel (4985)
Other objects 1 pyramidal anvil (IM 4984)
armor, that had collapsed into a Middle Helladic tomb. This is the area where the new excavations were
conducted in 2005 and 2006.
8 This hoard will be studied in depth by Christos Kleitsas, of the 14th Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical
Antiquities located in Ioannina, for his PhD thesis. Kleitsas is reviewing the evidence for metallurgy in
Late Bronze Age Epirus. Kleitsas kindly invited me to visit the Ioannina Museum, where he showed me the
objects of this hoard.
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