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Scope

Isolated boulder adjacent to stream gully on promontory terminus. Carvings on vertical surface.

Arrangement

Five cows, gazelle, quadruped, indeterminate: In centre of panel is incised outline of gazelle (dibatag) facing right with long neck, and backward then forward curving horn, upward curling tail, later pecking on back, U-shaped belly and two legs depicted. Below right are two pecked quadrupeds facing right, one with upward curving horns, possibly a cow, both indistinct, and a pecked indeterminate image, possibly a quadruped facing right. Above and left of gazelle are four pecked cows facing right, four with upward curving horns, one with forward curving horns and cervico-thoracic hump. Diagonal pecked line links the hind of the upper right cow and the muzzle of the upper left cow. Pecked indeterminate image to left of gazelle

Biographical history

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