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Left: figure 5, Tadrart Acacus, map.
Right: figure 6, Hunting Scene, Tadrart Acacus.
THE NORTH AFRICAN SIGHTHOUND We will get a more detailed picture of these
Sighthounds from the Egyptians.
If we look at the stone-age depictions in Depictions of Tesems (15) appear here in
the Wadi Mathendous (13) of the Fezzan, the Old Kingdom (16), once in the burial
and the Tadrart Acacus (14), we should note chamber of the Nubian (17) Ny-ankh-Pepy
the remarkable geographical location of (18), 11.Dynasty, before 2077 BC (Fig. 8). This
these artifacts: the Tadrart Acacus is just in is important, because through the Nubians
the border area between Algeria and Libya, a geographical link can be established with
south of Tunisia (Fig. 5). The hunting the Libyan desert (“Libya” is Roman &
(sight)hounds (Fig 6) have a deep chest, in Greek for “Berber”), and geographical
one the tail ends in a curl as can be seen “Nubia” coincides with historical “Kush”(19)
today in Sloughis of Morocco and Algeria which we will come across later.
(Fig.7).
Figure 7: Sloughis in the South of Morocco Figure 8: Ny-Ankh-Pepy and Tesems.
© Abdorahman Fritah
