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

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Algerie - Tassili-n'Ajjer - Terrarart - Quatre bœufs gravés très profondément, avec des parties polies. Exécutés dans le style de ceux d'In-Debiren, avec une utilisation maximale du relief naturel du rocher. Le bœuf au centre gauche est dit la «la vache qui pleure», parce qu'il semble avoir une larme coulant de son œil droite. Cette gravure, à hauteur d'homme, est située sur un rocher isolé qui émerge du sable dans l'oued Edjiriou. On raconte que lorsque l'oued coule, la «vache qui pleure» trempe son museau dans l'eau. Dimension de sa tête, du front aux naseaux : 0,60 m.

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

Terrarart - Four very deeply engraved oxen with polished parts. Executed in the style of those of In-Debiren, with maximum use of the natural rock relief. The ox in the centre left is called the "weeping cow" because a tear seems to run from its right eye. This man-sized engraving is on an isolated rock that rises out of the sand in the Wadi Edjiriou. It is said that the "weeping cow" dips its snout into the water when the wadi flows. Size of its head from forehead to nostrils: 0.60 m.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993