Table of Contents

Introduction ;

1. Limits of subject, chronology and chorology ;

2. Tools and model tools in archaeological theory ;

3. Tools and toilet implements in Ancient Egypt – history of research ;

4. Definitions of artefacts ;

5. Research tools ;

6. Copper tools in Old Kingdom textual and iconographic sources ;

7. Archaeological sources – material culture ;

8. Tools and toilet implements ;

9. Towards a semiosis of tools in the Old Kingdom culture ;

10. Conclusion ;

11. Case studies ;

Bibliography ;

Web sources ;

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About the Author

Martin Odler defended his PhD thesis in 2020. In 2016, he published the monograph Old Kingdom Copper Tools and Model Tools, the first of its kind in Egyptology, with Archaeopress. In Abusir (Egypt), he co-led the excavation of a new type of Egyptian tomb (AS 103) and of the latest known tomb of a transitional type from early Dynasty 4 (AS 104).