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Scope

Fragmented outcropping bedrock immediately south of LGR188A. Several carved panels on this outcrop, with several adjacent surfaces also modified by pecking, grooves and cupmarks. LGR188B1 carvings on sloping upper surface.

Arrangement

Cow, three giraffes, two hartebeest, two quadrupeds, bird, indeterminate, cupmark: On far right of panel is incised outline of a giraffe facing right with long neck and short horns, U-shaped belly. Below are pecked lines forming indeterminate shape. To the left is incised outline of a possible cow facing right with upward then inward curving horns. Cupmark between horns. To the left of this is pecked outline of a giraffe with long neck and legs, raised tail. On the left side of the panel are pecked outlines of five animals facing right including a bird and four quadrupeds, one with upward and outward then inward curving horns, possibly a hartebeest, and one with long neck, probably a giraffe. Also pecked lines forming two indeterminate shapes, possibly animals facing right now severely eroded. Figure 5.8a

Biographical history

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