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Scope

Small boulder, hollowed out by wind, not in situ forming part of cairn at base of escarpment. Some of carvings are truncated. Carvings on sloping surface.

Arrangement

Three ostriches, two birds, abstract, cupmarks, grooves, pecking: On left of panel is pecked striding ostrich facing right with long neck and open beak, feet with two toes depicted. Pecking above image. To the right is incised outline of bird facing right with round body, long neck and legs. Above is incised triangle with small ground cupmark at top and symmetrical arrangement of ten cupmarks within it. Bottom right corner is superimposed by pecked bird facing right with long neck and legs. On right edge of panel are pecked outlines of two ostriches facing right and truncated legs of a possible bird. Short U-shaped grooves at base and top of panel. Later surface pecking

Biographical history

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