Scope

Large boulder beside stream gully at base of escarpment flank near the modern road. Boulder has been dislodged from original position as engravings are now upside down facing towards the ground. Carvings on sloping surface.

Arrangement

Five antelopes, baboon?: Incised outlines of five bovids in a group. Bovid on left has upward curving horns, possibly a Hartebeest. To the right is a bovid with backward curving horns, probably a gazelle, and two bovids with upward then backward curving horns, probably antelopes. Upper of these antelopes has a bullet hole in neck. Further right is bovid with forward curving horns and long tail, possibly a reedbuck. Below this group is incised outline of quadruped facing right with large rounded head and two gouged eyes, powerful shoulder and thin legs, pecking on hide possibly a primate such as a baboon, or a mythical creature.

Biographical history

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