Archaeometallurgical study of Bronze Age copper alloy artefacts from Egypt

Abstract

This poster presents an archaeometallurgical study of a corpus of copper alloy artefacts found at ancient Egyptian sites currently deposited in the collection of Ägyptisches Museum - Georg Steindorff - der Universität Leipzig. The examined artifacts are dated to the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC.

The analyzed set of 86 artefacts covers different types such as full-size vessels, full-size tools and their models, mirrors, razors and tweezers.

Keywords

• archaeometallurgy
• Early Bronze Age
• Middle Bronze Age
• Late Bronze Age
• ancient Egypt
• copper