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Scope

Boulder in same cluster as GSC129A&B, forming inclined roof of shelter. Boulder has been damaged and split in antiquity, after the carvings were made. Upper side of boulder has been subjected to quarrying (MICS 129). Carvings on sloping lower surface within the shelter, possibly slightly displaced from original position.

Arrangement

Quadruped: Incised and smoothed outline of quadruped facing right with long neck and raised tail, lower legs and feet indistinct, pecking on body. Possibly a giraffe, but head now missing (damaged in antiquity). Figure 7.41

Biographical history

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