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Broken piece of adze, lower blade and bevel only. Light grey stone. Asymmetrical quadrangular cross-section. The surface is ground and flaked. There is no upper blade or butt. The bevel is smooth and demarcated from the blade by the irregular edge to its smooth surface.

Complete adze Asymmetrical cross-section. Front of blade is ground with flake scars. Back of blade is ground with flake scars at bevel. Undifferentiated blade between butt. Blade comes to a point at the poll. Bevel on blade is demarcated with line. Bevel is curved with flake scars and cutting edge is slightly blunt.

Complete unfinished adze. Grey stone. Lenticular cross-section. The surface is mostly ground with bruising on the sides and butt, and some flake scars. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The sides of the blade taper in from the cutting edge to the poll. The bevel is smooth and continuous with the blade, demarcated only on the proper right side by a small ridge. The cutting edge is sharp, irregular and chipped.

Broken adze roughout, blade and bevel end only. Grey stone with a layer of white on one side. Trapezoidal cross-section at the broken end, quadrangular at the bevel end. The surface is flaked. There is no obvious bevel and the cutting edge is blunt and flaked.

Worked greenstone. Irregular quadrangular cross-section. The surface is mostly flaked. There is a bevel at one end, demarcated by an oblique irregular ridge . The cutting edge is chipped and sharp.

Complete irregular The surface is ground with some flakes/chips No differentiation between the butt and the blade. The bevel is slightly curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is slightly curved and sharp.

Complete unfinished adze Cross-section is oval Surface is bruised Minor differentiation between butt and blade Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is unfinished

Limestone block from Tell el Armarna buildings. 18th Dynasty.

Complete unfinished adze. Light green stone. Trapezoidal cross-section with the back narrower than the front. The surface is ground on the front of the blade and the bevel. There are flake scars on the proper left front and bruising on the back of the blade. There is a reduction in the stone from flake scars on the sides of the butt. The bevel is smooth and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and irregular with several chips.