Locus 48 consists in a single large rock fallen from the north cliff of the wadi Umm Ushsh. Six scenes are engraved on the different sides of the rock. The whole scenes can be attributed to the Predynastic period. One of them seems to be earlier it is to say badarian, covered by a naqadian scene. They consists in five hunting scenes of desert animals (ibex, ostrich, kob ) by archers accompanied by dogs and a single navigation scene. An occurrence of donkeys is to be noticed on panel 3. The boat represented in B2. P2 belongs to the « square boat » type defined by P. Cervicek *.
*CERVICEK P. 1981. Notes on the Methodology of the Research into Nubian and Southern Egyptian Rock Art. BAIEPE 3 : 1-9; CERVICEK P. 1986. Rock Pictures of Upper Egypt and Nubia. Annali Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli vol. 46 fasc. 1.
