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LBI Code	CENT1_1
Inscription name	CENTINELA 1_1
	Terminology & Specifications
Site	CENT1
Country/Island	Tenerife/Canary Islands
Position (geogr.)
Position (UTM)
Elevation	400
Direction	300
Inclination
Technique	negraved
Line width	1-1,5
Line depth	0,5-0,9
Context on panel	linear, geometric
Context on site	pecked motifs
Superimpositions	younger geometric lines
Direction of writing	ver
Lines	3
Type of rock	cliff
Deposition	basalt
Conformation of rock	natural cracks and holes
Natural defacement	surface affected by erosion and lichens
Vandalism	no
Archaeological context	pottery and lithic artefacts in the area
Special conditions
Further comments
Date of discovery	decade of 1980
References
Epigraphic comment	Very difficult to decide which lines are belonging to the inscriptions and which not. The drawing is an attempt of subjective interpretation.
Transliteration	1: FNRNTS1 2: S2FS1 3: GZ2YZ1LT
Transcription
Translation
Comment	Balbin/Tejera 1989:301     "tres corts inscripciones, dos verticales y una oblícua, con un número máximo de cinco signos y mínimo de tres, y probable lectura vertical". Valencia/Oropesa 1995:58     "grabados de carácter epigráfico líbico-bereber". Valencia 2006:28     "exceptional son los alfabetiformes incisos en Cabuquero".
Nearby inscriptions
Pictures and/or drawings
Fig. 1: Fig. 2:
Earlier documentations
Not available
Reference details	bt: Balbin Behrmann, R.; Tejera Gaspar, A. (1989): Arte rupestre en Tenerife. XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Vol. 2, Zaragoza, 297-309 va: Valencia Afonso, V. (2006) : Investigaciones arqueológicas y manifestaciones rupestres en San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife). San Miguel de Abona. vo: Valencia Afonso, V. ; Oropesa T. (1995): Grabados rupestres de Canarias. -> More LBI-References
Author and copyright	© by Jose Farrujia, Sergio García and Werner Pichler 2007
Terminology & Specifications