Equipment

626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.

Everything

Comparative cutaway illustration of a Yemeni madfan with an intentionally broken outline; the shared Somalia-and-Yemen profile is not a universal plan.
Built structures

Yemeni Madfan: Underground Grain Store

A madfan is a covered underground grain chamber documented in Yemen, excavated in rock or firm earth. Sources do not establish one universal shape, locality or performance.

Pits and cavities
Yemen
Illustrated cutaway of an empty Mandi pit oven, showing a brick-lined circular shaft, a dark metal rim and two hanger rods set into dry ground.
Built structures

Mandi pit oven

Mandi ovens are ground-built pits for cooking a regional dish. A 2024 Seiyun report describes wood-fired pits dug into the earth; Saudi sources describe separate clay or iron restaurant pits and a tannour form.

Pits and cavities
Seiyun