digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.254
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of engraved, pecked rock art on rock surface (sandstone?) showing outlines of four giraffes, two camels, at least three cattle, an ostrich, ten unidentified quadrupeds and four circular cupules, all upright. Giraffes are at top of image, two at upper left and three at right, rightmost smaller than others and facing left, as is one to lower left. Below these are several unidentified animals in outline, including two cows with horns, one under second giraffe from left facing left, other right of rightmost giraffe facing right. Below first cow is much larger bull, facing left with faded topline. Three unidentified quadrupeds to left appear to be cattle; central among them is an ostrich and to left of this, another quadruped with long tail and neck (horse?). Between two groups of giraffes is similar quadruped (horse?) with protuberance above and below trunk (saddle?). at base of image are two infilled camels with clearly delineated humps, facing left. To right is an unidentified outline and to right of rightmost cow is another (giraffe?). At top of image are four circular cupules in an arc. Karkur Talh, Sudan.
Scanned
- Production date
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23 June 2006 (date digitized)
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December 2000 (original photograph)
- Dimensions
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File size: 120 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Karkur Tahl is the largest wadi (dry seasonal riverbed valley) in the sandstone eastern section of Jebel Uweinat, a granite and sandstone massif on the border of Egypt, Libya and Sudan. Karkur Talh is around 25 km long and lies mostly in Sudan, but partly within Egypt’s borders. There is an abundance of both painted and engraved rock art in shelters in the smaller side wadis. The engravings were first revealed to academia by Ahmed Hassanein in 1923 and a few photographs published in his report on the journey in National Geographic in 1924. A more comprehensive publication of rock art sites in Karkur Talh was made by Prince Kemal el Dine with Abbe Breuil in 1925 following his discovery of a painted cave in Karkur Talh. Further exploration and publications were made by numerous others including renowned explorer Ralph Bagnold’s expedition in 1931, with further exploration from László Almásy and Leo Frobenius in 1933. The largest professional exploration of the massif to date was made in 1968 by a team of Belgian scientists.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.254
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: SUDKTA0010040 (TARA number)