The Old Kingdom of Egypt (Dynasties 4-6, c. 2600-2180 BC) is famous
as a period of the builders of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It is
generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy
tools from this era is meagre. Martin Odler gathers the textual,
iconographic and palaeographic evidence and examines Old Kingdom
artefacts in order to revise this view on the use of copper alloy
tools and model tools. Furthermore, he provides updated definitions
of tool classes and tool kits, together with the context of their
use. Besides rare specimens of full-size tools, the largest corpora
of the material have been preserved in the form of model tools in
the burial equipment of the Old Kingdom elite and were most
probably symbols of their power to commission and fund craftwork.
Moreover, the size and elaboration of the model tools were probably
connected to the social status of the buried persons. The
long-standing division in the Egyptological literature between
full-size tools and model tools is questioned. The ancient sources
also enable to show that the preservation of material culture from
the Old Kingdom was largely dependent on a conscious selection made
within the past culture, with completely different settlement and
funerary contexts and a conspicuous absence of weapons. The volume
is completed by co-authored case studies on archaeometallurgy of
selected Old Kingdom artefacts in the collection of the Egyptian
Museum of Leipzig University, on morphometry of Old Kingdom adze
blades and on the finds of stone and ceramic vessels associated
with the findings of so-called Old Kingdom model tools.
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