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‘Atiqot 62 (2010)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Metal Objects from Fassuta
(pp. 43–49
)
Sariel Shalev
Keywords: metallurgy, Middle Bronze Age, recycling metal
Six of the metal items recovered from Tomb 1 at Fassuta were sampled and analyzed. The chemical analysis revealed that five of the items were made of tin bronze and one item, a shaft-hole axe, was made of arsenic copper with lead. Interestingly, it was noted that during the Middle Bronze Age levels of lead at 4% or more are only found in this type of axe and in the duckbill-shaped axe. It can be said that the metallurgical profiles of the objects from Fassuta well fit our knowledge of archaeometallurgy of MB I (MB IIA).