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

Nicosia, Cyprus Museum (inv. Enkomi 1960, 194-197)
Total objects in hoard 4
Tool count and frequency 3 (75%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 0
Other objects 1 shovel (Enk. 1960, 194), 2 sickles (Enk. 1960, 195-196), 1
large bronze ring (Enk. 1960, 197)
Bibliography Courtois 1982, 166; Courtois 1984, 38ff; Matthäus and
Schumacher-Matthäus 1986, 175
Context and date of Quarter 3W, point 438; precise contextual information not
discovery
reported; found in 1960
Likelihood of hoard Definite
52. Cyprus: Mathiati hoard (Eastern foothills of Troodos mts): LC IIC or IIIA
Nicosia, Cyprus Museum 12
Total objects in hoard 65
Tool count and frequency 25 (38.5%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 11 total: 1 hammer-adze, 3 double-adzes, 1 ax-adze, 3
singe/flat axes, 2 double axes, 1 tanged chisel
Other objects 1 sledgehammer, 1 mould for pruning hook; socketed pick; 4
plowshares, 2 hoes, 1 socketed sickle, 2 tanged sickles,
pruning hook, plough scraper/goad, 2 spearheads, 28 ingot or
fragments of ingots; plowshare casting, metal strip scrap;
other metal scrap, nails
Bibliography Catling 1964, 282, plate 49f-g, 52, 53a; Matthäus and
Schumacher-Matthäus 1986, 176
Context and date of Unknown; found in 1936 or earlier.
discovery
Likelihood of hoard Probable
Traditional interpretation Founder’s hoard
53. Cyprus: Sinda bronze hoard (Mesaoria): LC IIC-IIIA
Ayios Barnabas Archaeological and Icon Museum, (North Cyprus) 13
Total objects in hoard 11
Tool count and frequency 4 (36.4%)
Carpentry/masonry tools 0
Other objects 1 charcoal shovel, 1 pair of tongs, 1 socketed spatula, 1
socketed pick, 1 metal wall bracket, 1 complete
comes with the Enkomi hoards excavated by the French Mission: beginning with C.F.A. Schaeffer, all
French scholars who have discussed these six hoards (Maison des Bronzes, Trésor de Bronzes,
Topographical Points 438, 783, and 1458, and Brunnen 212) have always dated them to LC IIIA. Yet little
stratigraphic or ceramic evidence has ever been published in support of this dating.”
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Part of the hoard is in the Nicosia, Cyprus Museum, however much of the hoard is now missing.
(inventory numbers CM 1936/VII- )
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Although Karageorghis published the hoard, the object were recovered illicitly and subsequently sold to
Mr. Chr. Hadjiprodromou in Famagusta. Parts of the hoard are now on display in the Saint Barnabas Icon
and Archaeological Museum, near Salamis and just north of Famagusta.
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