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

Sites & Object types Specific object date Tool type category Context L W Bibliography
Plowshare? 1479-1150 BC Agricultural Unstratified or unknown Deshayes 1190; Loud 1948, pl. 195, 1 and 2
Plowshare? level III Agricultural Unstratified or unknown 15 Deshayes 1191; Loud 1948, pl. 195, 1 and 2
Plowshare? Agricultural Unstratified or unknown 13 Deshayes 1220; Loud 1948, pl. 195, 1 and 2
Sickle Level IX; 1550-1479 BC Agricultural Unstratified or unknown Deshayes 2838
Tongs 14th-13th century; LB II Metallurgical Burial 43.7 Deshayes 3055; Guy 1938, pl. 125:10; Catling 1964, 99
Tongs LBA II; 14th-13th century Metallurgical Burial 20 Deshayes 3056; Guy 1938, pl. 125:10; Catling 1964, 99
Megiddo - 2nd millennium
Knife Utilitarian Unstratified or unknown Deshayes 2560
Knife Utilitarian Unstratified or unknown Deshayes 2396
Minet el Beida, Ugarit - LBA
Chisel Carpentry/masonry Settlement 16 cm Deshayes 835, pg. 92
Cutting/slashing tool Utilitarian Settlement 8.8 cm Deshayes 2971, p. 367
Cutting/slashing tool Small crafts Settlement 9 and 11.8 cm Deshayes 2970, p. 367, plate L.17; Fouilles Schaeffer-Chenet 1929
Knife 14th-13th century Utilitarian Settlement 23.5 cm Deshayes 2518 bis, pg 314-5; MB 4014
Sickle 16th-13th century BC Agricultural Unstratified or unknown 20.5 cm Deshayes 2768, p. 341; BSPF, XXVIII (1931), p. 75, figure 3
Chisel, cold 14th-13th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial 7.2 1.8 Galliano and Calvet 2004,, 254 entry 299 with photograph
Double spatula 14th-13th century BC Small crafts Burial 8.1 1.4 Galliano and Calvet 2004,, 254 entry 293 with photograph
Double spatula 14th-13th century BC Small crafts Burial 9.7 1.7 Galliano and Calvet 2004,, 254 entry 295 with photograph
Double spatula? 14th-13th century BC Small crafts Burial 9.8 2.7 Galliano and Calvet 2004,, 254 entry 294 with photograph
Shepherd's crook 14th-13th century BC Ritual or prestige item Burial 17 9.7 Galliano and Calvet 2004,, 254 entry 296 with photograph
Spatula in a deer form 14th-13th century BC Small crafts Burial 9.7 5.5 Galliano and Calvet 2004, 253 entry 292
Nahariya - LBA
Ax, trunnion/lugged above floor VII Carpentry/masonry Cultic site or sanctuary Maxwell-Hyslop 1953, 81, figure 5.10
Qatna - LBA
Ax, trunnion/lugged Probably LBI Carpentry/masonry Unstratified or unknown 16.1 ce = 5.1 Deshayes 1055, figure XIII.11; Maxwell-Hyslop 1953, 82
Ras ibn Hani, Ugarit
Mold for oxhide ingot 13th century Metallurgical Workshop? Bouni et al. 1998; Archaeology of Syria 2003, 340
Ras Shamra, Ugarit - MBA
Ax, shaft hole Start of 18th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial? about 16 cm ce = 2.85 Deshayes 1480; Syria XVII (1936), p. 133, figure 19.j
Ax, shaft hole Start of 18th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial? 18 cm ce = 3.4 Deshayes 1481, p. 184 pl. XXIII.4; Syria XVII (1936), p. 142, figure 17g
Ax, shaft hole 18th-17th century; MB II Carpentry/masonry Burial? Deshayes 1482, p. 184; Strat. Comp. figure 49.6
Ax, shaft hole 18th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial 14.5 cm ce = 3.1 Deshayes 1483, p. 184; Syria XIX (1938), p. 240, figure 32,
Ax, shaft hole 18th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial 17.5 cm ce = 3.7 Deshayes 1485; Syria XIX (1938), p. 240, figure 32, T
Ax, shaft hole 18th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial 16 cm ce = 2.75 Deshayes 1486; Syria XIX (1938), p. 240, figure 32, S
Ax, shaft hole 18th century BC Carpentry/masonry Burial 15 cm ce = 3 Deshayes 1487; Syria XIX (1938), p. 246, figure 39, H
Ax, shaft hole 18th-17th century Carpentry/masonry Burial? Deshayes 1491, p. 185; Schaeffer 1949, p. 50, figure 18, 15
Ax, single/flat 21st-17th century BC Carpentry/masonry Unstratified or unknown 9.5 cm Deshayes 646; Schaeffer 1949, p. 63, figure 26.4
Ax, single/flat 21st-17th century BC Carpentry/masonry Unstratified or unknown 4.7 cm 1.6 Deshayes 291, plate IV.4; Schaeffer 1949, p. 62, figure 25, C,b
Ax, fenestrated, tiny MBA, level II Ritual or prestige item Cultic site or sanctuary 4.1 3.1 Contenson 1992, 189, plate CLXIX, 3
Ax, fenestrated, tiny MBA, level II Ritual or prestige item Cultic site or sanctuary ? ? Contenson 1992, 189, plate CLXIX, 3
Chisel 21st-17th century Carpentry/masonry Unstratified or unknown 6.1 cm ce = 0.7 Deshayes 703;, p. 87, 99, pl. IX>8; Schaeffer 1949, p. 62, figure 25c, A
Ras Shamra, Ugarit - LBA
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard 23 6.7 Schaeffer 1956, 251-275; Galliano and Calvet 2004, 33 entry 6
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard 23 6.4 Schaeffer 1956, 251-275; Galliano and Calvet 2004, 87 entry 63
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard Schaeffer 1956, 251-275
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard Schaeffer 1956, 251-275
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard Schaeffer 1956, 251-275
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard Schaeffer 1956, 251-275
Adze, shaft hole 14th century BC Carpentry/masonry Hoard Schaeffer 1956, 251-275
SYRIA-PALESTINE 659