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

Bibliography Vocotopoulou 1972; Knapp, Muhly and Muhly 1988;
Kleistsas’ dissertation
Context and date of On the Alysos Mountain slopes, 1200 meters above sea
discovery
level; found in 1970.
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Traditional interpretation Merchant hoard of itinerant bronzesmith
49. Greek mainland sphere: Ithaka-Polis hoard (Ionian islands): LH IIIB/IIIC
Present location unknown 9
Total objects in hoard 17
Tool count and frequency 5 (29.4%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 2 total: 1 broad chisel; 1 socketed chisel?
Other objects 3 knives; 2 sword fragments, 1 small javelin head, 9
spearhead fragments; 1 EIA bowl handle
Bibliography Benton 1935; Catling 1964, 297
Context and date of
discovery
Unknown; found before 1935
Likelihood of hoard Unclear, although Catling claims it is “clearly a hoard” 10
50. Cyprus: Enkomi Brunnen 212 hoard: LC IIC – IIIA
Nicosia, Cyprus Museum
Total objects in hoard 23+
Tool count and frequency 6 (26.1%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 5 total: 2 adze-hammers (Enkomi 1967, Inv. 19.113), 1 drill,
2 chisels
Other objects 1 plowshare; 4 swords, 1 spear point/head, 1 fragmentary
tool preserving a folded socket, 1 bent tool, 2 bronze balance
scales, 1 bronze weights (2 fragments), 1 bronze model
wagon (cultic object?); 3 bronze rings, ingot fragments, more
than 3 kilograms of fragments and scraps for reworking/melting,
5 bowl fragments
Bibliography Lagarce, 1971; Hundt 1971; Matthäus 1985, 363ff; Matthäus
and Schumacher-Matthäus 1986, 175.
Context and date of In a well, (well 212 in quarter 5E); found in 1967
discovery
Likelihood of hoard Definite
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard
51. Cyprus: Enkomi Point 438 hoard: LC II or LC II-III 11
9 The hoard is neither in the Athens National Museum nor the Argostoli Museum in Kefalonia. The objects
may be in the Vathy or Stavros Museums in Ithaca but the ΛΕ Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical
Antiquities could not confirm its existence in either of these museums.
10 Catling 1964, 297; Spyropoulos 1972 did not consider the Ithaca-Polis bronzes to be a hoard, but Knapp
et al. 1988 included the assemblage in the list of Aegean hoards.
11 LC II according to Knapp et al. but 1200-1100 according to Courtois. Knapp et al (1988, 246) criticize
the chronological conclusions of the French excavations regarding the Enkomi hoards: “The problem
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