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Scope

Outcropping rock adjacent to stream bed on promontory terminus. Carvings on sloping surface.

Arrangement

Hartebeest, antelope, grooves, incised lines: Incised outline of quadruped facing right with elongated neck and upward and inward angled horns, possibly a hartebeest. lozenge-shaped head, tapered legs, possible smoothing on body. Incised line curves from between horns to level with head. Above right is antelope facing right with ears or short upward pointing horns, back and belly formed by bedding planes. Series of U-shape grooves and incised lines around both animals, possibly directed towards them, or possibly the remnants of eroded animal figures.

Biographical history

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