大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 1月2日 22時02分

These unique engravings of cows were discovered at Shepe in Ethiopia in 1965. The site is located in the Sidamo Zone of Oromia, about 250km to the south of Addis Ababa. The rock art of Shepe consists almost exclusively of engravings of humpless cows. In total, around 50 relatively large cows (40 to 70cm in length) are depicted throughout the gorge walls, distributed in rows and groups to represent herds. The most original feature of these engravings is the technique used to depict them: rather than carving the outline of the cows, the area around them has been lowered to provide a bas-relief effect which has no known parallels in the region. The surface of the cows has been polished to obtain a smooth appearance.

#Ethiopia is the biggest country of the Horn of Africa, a very diverse country which has traditionally been a melting pot of cultures, religions and ethnicities, acting as a crossroads between the Nile Valley region, the Red Sea and East Africa. Ethiopian rock art mostly consists of cow depictions dated from the 3rd millennium BC onwards, although other animals, anthropomorphic figures and geometric symbols are also fairly common.

Follow the digital journey of the #AfricanRockArt project as they add more new images from Central and East Africa, and discover 30,000 years of this art form at africanrockart.britishmuseum.org

Frontal view of one the Shepe panels. Shepe, Ethiopia. © David Coulson/TARA.

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