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Scope

Outcropping rock near base of low inselberg close to edge of escarpment in TEK embayment, close to rock shelter. Carvings on sloping upper surface.

Arrangement

Cow, giraffe, antelope (kudu?), inscription, incised lines: On left of panel is incised outline of cow facing left with forward curving horn. To the right is incised outline of giraffe in motion facing left with hump, long neck, short upward horns or ears, hooves, pecking on hide, tail possibly split and forms part of muzzle of adjacent image. To the right is incised outline of an antelope in motion facing left with cervico-thoracic hump, thin neck, backward then forward curving horns (Kudu?). Several more recent incised lines over and above the images. Scratched Libyan inscription and incised lines to the right.

Biographical history

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