What is an ancient Egyptian artifact that has something to do with trade or economy?

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I am doing a school project on Egypt and i am having a lot of trouble finding an artifact that has something to do with trade or economy.
Does anyone know of any artifacts that has something to do with trade or economy in ancient Egypt?
 
In 1897, in an obscure Egyptian city, Oxyrhynchus, a collection of ancient Egyptian letters, mainly of business communications, were uncovered. The discovery created a revolution in modern thinking about business communication theory and epistolographic history.

Egyptian writing was a simplified and hand-written form (hieratic) version hieroglyphics. The letters were either written on papyrus or thin sheets of white stone.

Read about it among other communication history here on page 29:
http://www.engl.unt.edu/~kjensen/practice/jaconline/archives/vol9/hagge-ties.pdf

If you have the time and the resources, your library may be able to borrow a copy of "Egyptian Epistolography from the Eighteenth (18th) to the Twenty-first (21st) Dynasty"
(Bakir, 'Abd El-Mohsen.), which goes into much more detail about the collection of those letters.
 
Well, the ancient pyramids were symbols of great power of the economy in Egypt. The grander the size and architecture, the livelier the economy is at that moment in time. A great example is the pyramid sets of Abusir, which were critiqued as poor and mediocre compared to the other pyramids of other eras, since the economy at that time was poor.
 
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