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

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Tool count <strong>and</strong> frequency 11 (30%)<br />

Carpentry/masonry tools 9 total: 1 axe-adze (AM 2187); 1 double adze (AM 2189), 1<br />

hammer-adze (AM 2188), 1 necked, flat adze (M. 3779 or<br />

AM 2142) 19 , 3 drills (AM 2144) 20 , 1 deep bar chisel (AM<br />

2142), 1 cold chisel/wedge (old inventory #: M. 3.787) 21<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r objects 1 knife (old inventory #: M. 3.753), 1 spatulate tool (AM<br />

2139), 1 spear butt spike, 2 vessel fragments, 18 ornaments<br />

of bracelets, spiral rings, mace head, o<strong>the</strong>r misc, 1 shepherd’s<br />

crook, 2 weights/scales, some scrap<br />

Bibliography Schaeffer 1952, 37ff, figures 1-4, plates ii-iii; Catling 1964,<br />

286-87; Courtois 1982, Matthäus <strong>and</strong> Schumacher-Matthäus<br />

1986, 174.<br />

Context <strong>and</strong> date of Crevice of a wall in a building in <strong>the</strong> north section of town in<br />

discovery<br />

quarter 2W; found in 1947<br />

Likelihood of hoard Definite<br />

Traditional interpretation Merchant’s hoard?<br />

65. Cyprus: Enkomi weapon hoard: LC IIIA (hoard with Myc IIIC1 pottery)<br />

Nicosia, Cyprus Museum (Enkomi 1276/1-13; 1277-80)<br />

Total objects in hoard 33<br />

Tool count <strong>and</strong> frequency 3 (9%)<br />

Carpentry/masonry tools 1 total: 1 double ax (CM 1280)<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r objects 1 tanged sickle, 1 sickle fragment, 24 weapons (5 spearheads<br />

<strong>and</strong> many fragments, 5 fragmentary daggers, 2 javelins, 1<br />

spear butt spike, 1 rivet); 1 metal bowl casting, 1 table<br />

fragment, 5 scraps<br />

Bibliography Dikaios 1969, 99,109, 132; Matthäus <strong>and</strong> Schumacher-<br />

Matthäus 1986, 143, 175<br />

Context <strong>and</strong> date of Enkomi, area III, room 1, quarter 1W; <strong>the</strong> hoard may have<br />

discovery<br />

been stored on a shelf; found in 1952.<br />

Likelihood of hoard Doubtful, as <strong>the</strong> cache was not intentionally concealed. 22<br />

Traditional interpretation Weapons in storage for defense of <strong>the</strong> city or foundry hoard<br />

66. Cyprus: Enkomi Quarter 6W Point 1458 hoard: LC IIIA<br />

Nicosia, Cyprus Museum<br />

Total objects in hoard 41<br />

Tool count <strong>and</strong> frequency 3 (7.3%)<br />

Carpentry/masonry tools 0<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r objects 3 knives or sickles, 12 vessel fragments (situlae, basin,<br />

19<br />

Necked adze has an old inventory number of: M. 3779; its new number is unknown but it is currently<br />

attached to <strong>the</strong> deep bar chisel (old number 3778), which has a new number of AM 2142<br />

20<br />

Only one of <strong>the</strong> three drills was found in <strong>the</strong> Louvre museum. The old inventory number of <strong>the</strong>se drills<br />

were: M. 3.787, M. 3.785, M. 3786. Old inventory number M 3.785 is now listed under AM 2144.<br />

21<br />

Objects with only <strong>the</strong> old inventory number means that <strong>the</strong>y were not found in <strong>the</strong> Louvre Museum<br />

during my visit.<br />

22<br />

See Matthäus <strong>and</strong> Schumacher-Matthäus 1985, 143 <strong>and</strong> Knapp, Muhly <strong>and</strong> Muhly 1988, 246.<br />

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