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Metal in the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC)

In this period bronze becomes the most common metal for tools, weapons and metal objects of daily use, though copper is still widespread.

click on the pictures to see typologies
razors
chisels
fishings hooks
a dagger
mirrors

tools and weapons (click on the pictures to see the archaeological context)

arrowheads
cosmetic tool

vessels (unprovenanced) - click on the pictures to see a larger image

Radwan 1983: 139, no. 394
 
a metal rhyton

compare: jewellery, axes, spear head


 

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