Abstrakt
n adze is one of the most important tools among the Ancient Egyptian crafts. The most recent thorough text about the chronology and the morphology of adzes in the Early Dynastic period and Old Kingdom was written by Flinders Petrie and published in 1917.
This paper aims to reconsider and re-evaluate the issue. This evaluation is based on the database of published archaeological contexts for the finds of copper tools in both periods.
New archaeological contexts, some even from undisturbed tomb burials, were brought to light after Petrie's publication, mainly from Abusir, Balat, Giza and Saqqara, so a more accurate chronology and morphology is thus possible. The problem of regional differences will be addressed, as well as the problem of the relationship between real tools and model tools.
Two of the best published corpuses: from Tomb 3471 in Saqqara and from the tomb complex of the family of vizier Qar from Abusir, will be compared.