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Rake
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Rake

Iron, 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Menander
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20762

Rakes, usually with six teeth, were used for work of various kinds: to dig furrows for sowing, to collect and heap up mown grass from the meadows for animal feed, and to hoe and weed the fields.