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Scope

Large angular boulder split by wide near-vertical crack, on slope of escarpment flank. Evidence for some quarrying along the grain of the rock, possibly removing some engravings at the top of the boulder. Boulder located approx. 100m from road and 50m from school. Carvings on near vertical surface.

Arrangement

Four humans, bull, inscription, pecking: Pecked outlines of four humans facing forward with circular heads and double triangle bodies, open at base. One holds circular object (shield?), one holds linear object. Figures are arranged below and to the right of pecked outline of large bull, facing right, with phallus and upward curving horns. Chest and forelegs repecked more recently. Some pecking on and around body and to right of bull. Incised indeterminate shape added later. Recent scratched Arabic inscription over the bull. Figure 6.20c

Biographical history

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