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Scope

Small, shallow rock shelter in lower cliff of inselberg. Carvings on sloping surface.

Arrangement

Inscription, cupmarks, grooves, hollows, graffiti: A row of five natural water-worn depressions run around the back of the shelter. Abrasion marks suggest these have been anthropogenically enhanced. The largest depression has circular hollow ground in the base of it, with four short grooves notched in the outer edge. The adjacent hollow has two incised Libyan inscriptions. Between the fourth and fifth hollow are four circular pecked and ground cupmarks in a row, an Arabic inscription and scratched graffiti.

Biographical history

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