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Scope

Large boulder close to stream gully at mouth of wide watercourse. Evidence of quarrying on surface opposite to carved surface. Other nearby boulders also quarried. Carvings on vertical surface.

Arrangement

Quadruped, inscription, grooves, pecking, polishing: Pecked Libyan inscription on upper right corner of boulder. Superimposed over pecked indeterminate shapes comprising long lines with series of short perpendicular lines, including quadruped facing left with long ears or horns and long straight back. Several similar shapes above. On the bottom left of the panel are several incised grooves with U-shaped profiles and polishing and pecking.

Biographical history

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