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Digital photograph (colour); view of engraved rock art on a rock face (sandstone), including landscape. The engravings show a human figure, an elephant, a giraffe, a bull, an unidentified quadruped and several unidentified shapes. Centre: outlined (polished) elephant upright facing right, trunk curled forward, grooved lined pattern markings at ears. Behind elephant and under tail, four circular shapes (faeces). Under elephant’s head: outlined (polished) unidentified shape. Left: outlined (polished) giraffe upright facing right, head over elephant’s back. Bubalus period. Right: outlined (polished) human figure upright facing left, legs bent, arms outstretched to the left holding bow, diagonal grooves at chest (garment). Superimposed to human figure: outlined (pecked) bull upright facing. Superimposed by bull: infilled (polished) unidentified quadruped with elongated legs (giraffe?) upright facing left. Close-up of 2013,2034.3011. Wadi Beddis, Messak Settafet, Fezzan province, Libya. Scanned
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