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Scope

Fragmented boulder beside small stream near end of small promontory. Carvings on sloping surface.

Arrangement

Camel, bull, quadruped (ambiguous animal?): Pecked outline of camel in motion facing right with long neck and hump. Pecked hide and four thick legs in perspective, front legs truncated by fragmentation of boulder. Below is pecked outline of bull facing right with forward curving horn and wavy phallus. Dorsal line of animal follows natural fissure. bi-ocular, four thick legs. Above to the right is pecked outline of a quadruped facing left, possibly a mythical or monstrous animal. Head comprises convoluted line, with further curvilinear lines pecked on body. Four thick legs, three bent as if in motion, feet entirely pecked, two inner legs joined by pecked line. Figure 7.14

Biographical history

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