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Algeria - Terrarart (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Engraving of four cattle, very deeply worked, partly polished. In the center "The Weeping Cow".

A Torha plant at Terarart in the south of Tassili n'Ajjer. - Algeria - 1975

At Terarart, south of Djanet, you will not only find the highly stylised but carefully executed Weeping Cattle on a group of rocks, which are among the most beautiful Saharan rock art has left behind. If you are lucky, you will also find Neolithic stone axes in the sand.

South of Djanet, on the edge of the Erg Admer, an isolated rock juts out of the Wadi Edjiriou. On it one finds four very deeply engraved oxen. The place is called Terrarart. Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

629 - Terrarart (Tassili-n'Ajjer). - Four deeply engraved oxen with polished parts. Executed in the style of those from In-Debiren, using the natural relief of the rock to the fullest. The ox in the middle left is called "the crying cow" because it appears to have a tear running from its right eye. This engraving, at human height, is located on an isolated rock emerging from the sand in the Wadi Edjiriou. It is said that when the wadi flows, the "crying cow" dips its snout into the water. Dimension of the head, from forehead to nostrils: 0.60 m.