Abstract
Six of the metal items recovered from Tomb 1 at Fassuta were sampled and analyzed. The chemical analysis revealed that five of the items were made of tin bronze and one item, a shaft-hole axe, was made of arsenic copper with lead. Interestingly, it was noted that during the Middle Bronze Age levels of lead at 4% or more are only found in this type of axe and in the duckbill-shaped axe. It can be said that the metallurgical profiles of the objects from Fassuta well fit our knowledge of archaeometallurgy of MB I (MB IIA).
Keywords
metallurgy, Middle Bronze Age, recycling metal
Recommended Citation
Shalev, Sariel
(2010)
"The Metal Objects from Fassuta (pp. 43–49),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 62, Article 3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1261
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol62/iss1/3
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