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Scope

Slab on lower slope at end of small promontory on E side of small LGR embayment, overlooking wide passage into the embayment. Slab fragmented since carvings were made. Carvings on sloping upper surface.

Arrangement

Four cows, giraffe, bird, abstract, grooves, incisions, pecking, polishing: Incised outlines of four cows facing right with forward curving horns. Three have incised lines on body or head, three have bands round neck, two have lines extending below neck. Carved on polished surfaces. Top left cow has incised outline of possible bird facing right behind it using some of lines of body. On right of panel is incised abstract shape. On bottom right of panel is incised outline of giraffe facing right with long neck. Lines below neck possibly forming second giraffe. Incisions, grooves, surface pecking.

Biographical history

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