hoe;
rope
- Museum number
- EA41677
- Description
-
Wooden hoe formed from a wooden handle-shaft, separate wooden blade inserted into a hole in the shaft, and rope bridging the two pieces. This allowed the angle of the blade to be adjusted.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 55 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The hoe was used for a wide variety of tasks, including irrigation works, preparing land for sowing, breaking up clumps of earth and covering sown seed and brickmaking, much like the turiah/fes used today in Egypt. The typical hoe took the form of a blade of wood attached to a handle, with a rope running between the two to allow the angle of the blade to be modified, as represented in the hieroglyph. For an 18th dynasty hoe found with a mallet, chisel and boning rods, also from Deir el-Bahri, see Egypt's Golden Age (exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1982): 46 no.14
- Location
- On display (G61/dc6/sB)
- Condition
- good (rope broken)
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA41677
- Registration number
- 1905,1014.43
