SOME AFRICAN AFFINITIES OF ARABIAN ROCK ART

Abstract

Bovids are the most frequent motif of the Arabian rock art (Anati 1974: chart facing p. 240). They are often found decorated with one or more vertical stripes running across the body, e.g. at Sha'Ib Musamma, about 30 km north of Hima (id. 1968a: fig. 69; 1968b, II: fig. 7), at Sha'ib Shis'a in the Kaukab Hills (id. 1968b, I: fig. 12), in the Wadi Khaniq (id. 1974: fig. 126) and near A1 Hanakiya, about 150 km northeast of Madinah (CerviiSek 1971a: fig. 1; Courtenay-Thompson 1975: fig. on p. 23 bottom). Sometimes, rock pictures of other animals with analogous decoration are found in Arabia, such as antelopes (Anati 1968a: fig. 26 Sha'ib Samma) or fat-tailed sheep (id. 1968b, I: fig. 17 left Sha'Ib Sahi). In Africa, this decoration occurs in rock pictures of bovids on several rock art sites in Eritrea (Graziosi 1964: fig. 1, pls. XIII, XV, XVI near Mai Aini; CerviSek 1976: fig. 8 Hamas6n), in the Hararge province of Ethiopia (Breuil 1934: fig. 10 SourrS; Cervicek 1971b: figs. 2, 28 Laga Oda; Cervicek and Braukamper 1975: fig. 5 Laga Gafra) as well as in the Nubian Desert (CerviCek 1974: figs. 25, 167, 175, 183, 190, 204, 210, 211, 215, 222, 348), Lower Nubia (Dunbar 1941: fig. 30; Almagro Basch and Almagro Gorbea 1968: figs. 26, 30, 36, 47,

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