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Zone code: IND-LAD-SKY-Zo01
Skyiu
Longitude: 77.261427
Latitude: 33.984425
Altitude: 3392 [m.a.s.l.]
The engraved rock is located at the entrance of the valley from Skyiu to Shingo, 20mn walk from the monastery and the old palace.
none

fortified structure, mani stone wall, other, religious building, stupa structure
slope, torrent, valley
Comments on the environment: Name of the river: Shingi nala; right bank: you can arrive at Skyiu from the Indus valley via Rumbak and the Ganda pass (4900 m) or from Choksti in the Zanskar gorges. There is a Lhato.

gathered
scarce

open air
petroglyph
other
boulder

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (2003): systematic
good
Comments on the condition: none

General statistics for the zone

item #
rocks 1
surfaces 8
motifs 69
scenes 3
See also detailed motif and scene statistics for the site

Images

Rocks

Detailed motif and scene statistics for the zone

  • anthropomorph: 1
  • architecture: 0
  • artefact: 0
  • indeterminate: 9
  • inscription: 0
  • other: 0
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 0
  • zoomorph: 59
  • battle: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 1
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 0
  • image and text: 0
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 2
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 0
  • pair: 0
  • predation: 0
  • religious: 0
  • ceremony: 0
  • fresh: 0
  • clear: 0
  • medium: 14
  • dark: 55
  • very dark: 0
  • unknown: 0
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 69
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 0
  • contemporary: 0
  • historic: 0
  • pre-historic: 0
  • unknown: 69
  • front view: 0
  • left: 14
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 0
  • aerial: 0
  • none: 55
  • unknown: 0
  • contour: 0
  • silhouette: 69
  • combination: 0
  • unknown: 0
  • rectilinear: 0
  • curvilinear: 0
  • parallel: 0
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 0
  • rectotriangular: 0
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 2
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 67