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Scope

Outcropping slab on flat rocky platform forming top of lower cliff at tip of promontory. Carvings on upper surface.

Arrangement

Gazelle, two bovids, two quadrupeds, cupmarks, grooves, incised lines, pecking: Several animal images with different orientation. In centre of panel is incised outline of bovid facing right with long backward pointing horns, short tail, lines and pecking on hide, pecked circular cupmark on back and hind feet. To the right is incised outline of bovid facing right with short backward curving horns, lines and pecked cupmark at feet, incised lines to the right. Above, upside down, is incised outline of quadruped facing left with upward pointing horns or ears, line on body and below neck. To right of hind quarters of this image is incised outline of quadruped facing right with short backward pointing horns, possibly a goat. Below legs of quadruped is incised outline of bovid facing right with short backward pointing horns. Incised lines to the right. To the left on edge of panel is incised outline of indeterminate image, possibly a giraffe, with short lines radiating from side of leg, head and back indistinct.

Biographical history

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