digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.2549
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of engraved rock art on floor of rock shelter, showing incised outline of inverted bell shape, with smaller unidentified shape pecked on smaller rock at bottom right. 10cm photo scale fitted at base of image. (Pastoral period?) Agrahm-n-Oudadan, Libya. Born digital
- Production date
- 16 October 2009
- Dimensions
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File size: 57.40 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Tassili n’Ajjer is a mountainous sandstone plateau covering around 72,000km² in the mid-Sahara, largely situated in eastern Algeria but straddling the borders with Libya and Niger. The area is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its plethora of rock art, its geological attributes and its unique flora and fauna. Although previously known to the local Tuareg of the Kel Ajjer, the rock art was not more widely known until the first decades of the twentieth century when finds were reported by French Legionnaires. In 1933, a Lt. Brenans discovered and sketched paintings in Wadi Djerat, following which academic interest burgeoned with reports from Leo Frobenius among others. In 1956, A follower of the renowned archaeologist the Abbé Henri Breuil, Ethnographer and explorer Henri Lhote, led an expedition which went on to record and publish numerous images, leading to the mounting of a celebrated exhibition of Tassilian art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1957-8. The rock art of Tassili n’Ajjer has since been widely studied and discussed within the larger context of ‘Saharan Rock Art’, adjacent as it is to the Libyan ranges of Tadrart Acacus and Messak.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.2549
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: LIBLTA0200004 (TARA number)