Abstract
Pierre Montet excavated in 1913-1914 Early Dynastic Cemetery M at Abu Rawash. Among the finds were objects made of copper alloy.
A selection of copper tools from large Tomb 1 was published on a photograph in the preliminary report on the excavation in the journal Kêmi (Montet 1938). More copper finds were in Tombs 8 and 11, but only mentioned The metal finds (45 pieces) are now deposited in the Louvre.
The assemblage consists in greatest part of tools and tool fragments, and among them is 28 chisels. The objects are now complemented by new material, site being re-excavated by the IFAO/Macquarie University mission lead by Yann Tristant.
The poster is intended as a typological study of the copper material from the Early Dynastic Abu Rawash. It will set the material into the context of the site, comparing these finds with the cemetery 400, excavated by Klasens.
Early Dynastic typology of metal tools is defined for the Dynasty 1 on the finds from Abydos and Saqqara, for the Dynasty 2 on the objects from Abydos and Helwan and for the Dynasty 3 on the tools from Bet Khallaf and Lahun. I will define typological and technological traits that enable to distinguish Early Dynastic metal tools (from Dynasties 1 to 3) from the metal tools of Naqada culture and tools used later, in the Old Kingdom.