Scope

Outcropping rock forming part of lower cliff, facing across mouth of watercourse on W side of modern quarry. Main section of panel defined by natural fissures and anomalies, making the panel more distinct. Boulders lower down the slope are covered by extraction waste from quarry, obscuring any potential carvings. Carvings on near vertical surface.

Arrangement

Two bulls, bovid, ostrich: Incised and smoothed outlines of two bulls facing right in centre of panel. Upper bull has circular curving horns, and naturalistic proportions and features including ear, eye, jaw, phallus. Line across neck, band across body, three lobes hanging beneath neck, smoothed lines on hind quarters. Dorsal line follows natural fissure and legs end in natural fissure. Lower bull has forward curving horn, pronounced cervico-thoracic hump, two lobes hanging beneath neck, band across neck using natural fissure, feet indistinct. Some pecking around outline. To right of upper bull is pecked outline of ostrich facing left with long neck and short legs. Further to the right is pecked outline of bovid facing right with short upward and inward pointing smoothed horns. Figure 7.9a

Biographical history

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