Drawing of a shaduf

Claire Thorne

British Museum
London, United Kingdom

Illustration of a shaduf by Claire Thorne. The shaduf is a water lifting devise used for irrigating crops from the New Kingdom onwards in ancient Egypt and Sudan. Shadufs were used in Egypt and Sudan up until the twentieth century.

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Title: Drawing of a shaduf
Creator: Claire Thorne
Copyright: © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
British Museum website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/sudan/amara_west_research_project/sustainability_and_subsistence.aspx

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