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Scope

Large flat boulder near base of escarpment. Carvings on sloping upper surface.

Arrangement

Bird, cupmarks, indeterminate, abstract, hollow, pecking: One edge of boulder is pecked outline of bird facing right with long neck, legs indistinct. Several pecked curvilinear shapes to right and above. To left is pecked and incised linear shape with bifurcated end (forked stick?), and pecked cupmark in centre of fork. To the left on slightly lower surface are several incised lines forming indeterminate shape. In the centre of the panel is ovoid polishing or grinding hollow with pecking around. Towards the opposite end of the panel are five pecked circular cupmarks. Figure 7.52b

Biographical history

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