Early South Indian Palaeography c8.s2.48

c8.s2.48

⁵⁹ *Ibid.*, p. 85. Count de Chasoeloup recognises a striking similarity between Ahaggar paintings on one hand and Bushman art and the art of Ancient Egypt on the other and suggests the Ahaggar plateau as the original home of this art. Commenting on this Leouhard Adams observes : “ We can trace the development of Egyptian paintings in Egypt itself from very primitive beginnings. As far as we know strong influences have spread in exactly the opposite direction - that is from Egypt to the West and South-west, but even this took place in the dynastic period, and not in pre-historic times. In the Atlas region the engraved figures of bulls and rams with sun discs between their horns show an obvious influence, but they are not older than the New Stone Age, and may be even more recent. The paintings of Ahaggar plateau, then, appear to be only a link - though probably the most beautiful one - in the chain of Saharan art centres parallel in age to pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt ”. *Ibid.*, p. 85.