Scope

Edge of outcropping bedrock forming lower cliff at end of small promontory on E side of mouth of watercourse, just below entrance to a small rock shelter and 5m NW of another small rock shelter. Carvings on vertical surface.

Arrangement

Bubalus antiquus, three birds: Incised and smoothed outline of quadruped facing right with wide outward curving segmented horns and large cervico-thoracic hump, probably a Bubalus antiquus. Tail raised with curled tip. Possible phallus, forms legs of bird with long neck, facing right, superimposed over body of quadruped. To the right are incised and smoothed outlines of two birds facing right, one with eye, the other with indistinct legs. Birds appear to move towards hole in rock surface. Engravings eroded.

Biographical history

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