Fig. 9-11d. Irrigation technology - Raising water from the river with shaduf by Assyrians. Three men operate a double lift. The shadufs, on mud uprights, stand at two levels on the river bank, and in front of each a brick platform is built out into the river for the men who fill and empty the buckets. From the palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, Mesopotamia 7th Century BCE.
Source: Singer et al (1954).