Invisible Connections: An Archaeometallurgical Analysis of the Bronze Age Metalwork from the Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig

By (author) Martin Odler By (author) Jiří Kmošek

Book cover: Invisible Connections: An Archaeometallurgical Analysis of the Bronze Age Metalwork from the Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig

Extent: 200 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Archaeopress Egyptology

Language: English

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(December 2020)

ISBN: 9781789697407

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The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig has the largest university collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts in Germany. This volume presents an analysis of 86 of these artefacts using a range of archaeometallurgical methods in order to provide a diachronic sample of Bronze Age Egyptian copper alloy metalwork from Dynasty 1 t

The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig has the largest university collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts in Germany. It includes important objects from the excavations of the most prolific excavator among the museum’s curators, Georg Steindorff, at the sites of Abusir, Aniba, and Giza, complemented by objects from Abydos, Thebes, and Kerma. The catalogue represents the results of an interdisciplinary project by Egyptologist and archaeologist Martin Odler, archaeometalurgist Jiri Kmosek and other participating researchers. A selection of 86 artefacts was analysed using a range of archaeometallurgical methods (X-ray fluorescence; metallography; neutron activation analysis; lead isotope analysis), providing a diachronic sample of Bronze Age Egyptian copper alloy metalwork from Dynasty 1 to Dynasty 19. Besides currently popular focus on the ore provenance, the selection of the applied methods aimed also at the description of practical physical properties of the objects. The question of differences between full-size functional artefacts and models is addressed, as is the problem of ‘imports’ and their ethnic interpretation. The analyses brought many unexpected results to light, the most surprising being a bowl (AMUL 2162) made of arsenical copper high in nickel, which has parallels in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Anatolia, and was featured in an article in the Journal of Archaeological Science in 2018. The corpus presented here involves the largest analysed metalwork assemblage from the Nubian C-Group and the Egyptian New Kingdom, and it addresses the issue of the use of local Nubian ore sources versus the sources of copper from Cyprus and elsewhere.

Foreword ;

1. Introduction ;

2. History of the collection ;

3. Egyptological framework of the study ;

4. Methodology of the analytical study ;

5. Dynasty-1 Abusir ;

6. Dynasty-2 Abydos ;

7. Old Kingdom Giza ;

8. First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom artefacts ;

9. C-Group Aniba ;

10 Kerma culture ;

11. Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom Aniba ;

12. Other New Kingdom provenanced artefacts ;

13. Unprovenanced artefacts ;

14. Archaeometallurgical summary (JK) ;

15. Archaeological and historical summary (MO) ;

16. Concluding remarks ;

17. Bibliography

By (author) Martin Odler
By (author) Jiří Kmošek

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