digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.12277
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of painted rock art showing figures of three humans and two horses, all upright and facing right. Two human figures are riding the horses, third human figure stands between them, arms outstretched. Horses have visible reins, arched necks and spiked manes with fishbone-style tails. Leftmost rider has circle above head. Oued Jrid, Mauritania.
Scanned
- Production date
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April 2004 (original photograph)
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04 April 2008 (date digitized)
- Dimensions
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File size: 120 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Detail from 2013,2034.12287.
Oued Jrid is a valley with steep sides and cliffs, situated within the Hodh depression, encircled to the north by the vast chain of sandstone escarpments forming the Dhars Tagant-Tichitt-Oualata-Néma chain. Rock art research in the Tichitt area was pioneered by French researchers in the mid-20th century with the most significant contributions to study made by Theodor Monod and Raymond Mauny, with more recent syntheses produced by Robert Vernet. Many rock art sites specific to the Tichitt-Walata region have been published in relation to archaeological work there on Neolithic settlements, but academic research on rock art in this area of Mauritania south of that region has not been extensive.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.12277
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: MAUAIO0010001 (TARA number)