A wooden hoe, with leaf-shaped blade pierced with two holes, attached to a curved handle. After the inundation of the Nile land was ploughed in preparation for sowing crops. A hoe was used to break up the earth. This was a tool used by the everyday people of the Nile Valley. Recorded as being "found at Sedment el Gebel" in the MacGregor collection sale catalogue; and 'found at Shem-el-Gebel" on the Wellcome collection record card.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 15383. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 26 June - 3 July 1922,  Lot 612/3.

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A wooden hoe, with leaf-shaped blade pierced with two holes, attached to a curved handle. After the inundation of the Nile land was ploughed in preparation for sowing crops. A hoe was used to break up the earth. This was a tool used by the everyday people of the Nile Valley. Recorded as being "found at Sedment el Gebel" in the MacGregor collection sale catalogue; and 'found at Shem-el-Gebel" on the Wellcome collection record card. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 15383. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 26 June - 3 July 1922, Lot 612/3.

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