Scope

Outcropping rock on end of major promontory, immediately W of TAG291A. Faces E across mouth of Wadi Bouzna towards the similar elephant panel at ELH018. Cliff face and carvings partly overlain by dry stone wall of Garamantian burial chamber. Carvings on vertical surface.

Arrangement

Three humans, two elephants, camel, horse, indeterminate, abstract, inscriptions: Incised outlines of two elephants back-to-back in motion, with tails and hind legs partly overlapping and terminating in a natural horizontal fissure. Elephant on right seems to emerge from a second fissure, which separates the images. Linear incisions and gouged cupmarks on bodies. Head and front end of left-hand elephant completely eroded. Head and upper body of right elephant partly exfoliated leaving faint lines suggesting saddle or decoration on back, and possible spear shapes. Lower part of trunk is curled upwards towards mouth. In front of right elephant are incised outlines of two anthropomorphs facing left. Left figure has long tail and possible pointed, bifurcated mask, arms bent and raised with bow and arrow in one hand pointing at elephant and linear object in other hand. Right human has long tail and bent leg, head and upper body partly exfoliated. Eroded incised lines below trunk of elephant may depict legs of another anthropomorph. Bottom right of panel is incised abstract shape. Above and in front of right elephant on exfoliated surface is incised quadruped facing right with ears or short horns (horse?). Above elephants are incised Libyan inscription and incised abstract image. To left of left elephant is incised camel or horse facing right with short upward ears, and possible rider depicted by single line. Several incised Libyan inscriptions and characters, and incised lines. Figures 5.7b, 7.17b&c

Biographical history

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