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Scope

Outcropping rock forming large panel on lower cliff of promontory terminus, immediately adjacent to FJJ130A. Carvings on vertical surface.

Arrangement

Seven giraffes, cows, two bovids, indeterminate, graffiti: At left end of panel is pecked giraffe with partially incised outline, facing right with short upward horns or ears. To the right are incised outlines of six giraffes facing right in a row. Left hand giraffe has short upward pointing horns and ear, head smoothed, pecking on hide, raised tail and line below tail (urinating?). Giraffe to the right has short upward horns and ear, head area deeply incised, pecking on neck and large peck marks on hide, raised tail and line below tail (urinating?). Giraffe to the right has upper head exfoliated, head area deeply incised, large peck marks on hide, short tail. Giraffe to the right has five short upward horns or ears above head. Pecking on neck, large peck marks on hide, raised tail and line below tail. Giraffe to the right has short upward horns of ears, pecking on neck, large peck marks on hide, raised tail. Right-most giraffe has short upward horns and ears, large peck marks on neck and hide, short raised tail, pecking between legs and to left of body. To the right are incised lines of indeterminate shape, and incised outline of cow facing right with upward curving horns. At left end of panel is incised outline of bovid, possibly a cow, facing right with large forward curving horn, superimposed by legs of two giraffe. Below is pecked bovid facing right with forward pointing horns. At bottom right of pnel is incised head and neck of probable giraffe, with body on FJJ130D. Large white graffiti letters painted across carvings. Figure 7.13

Biographical history

Deposited with the Society for Libyan Studies Online Archive by Tertia Barnett in 2019