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Zone code: IND-ZAN-ZMT-Zo01
Zamthang
Char Zampa
Zone is in the Lungnak valley at the Cha bridge.
Inhabitants of the only house on the plateau know about the petroglyphs. Dagon Rimpoche spoke about the site in public during one of his stays at Padum Pothang, associating the petroglyphs with spontaneous apparitions and giving them a religious status. According to Norbu, a team carried out a tracing of the slab in 1994-95 (Klodzinski or Mascle?). Norbu remembered the name Frankfurt.

bridge, cultivated area, mani stone wall, stupa structure, trail
bank, cone, plateau, river, slope
Comments on the environment: Left bank of the Zanskar | modern building.

gathered
medium

open air
petroglyph
other
boulder slab

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (1986): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (1996): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (1997): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (1998): systematic
Martin, Vernier (2000): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2001): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2003): systematic
Martin, Vernier (2003): systematic
Jean-Louis, Taillefer (2005): surveyed
Jean-Louis, Taillefer (2006): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2008): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2011): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2013): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2014): surveyed
Martin, Vernier (2017): surveyed
damaged
Comments on the condition: Since 1998 some rocks behind Norbu's house have been broken as well as in the enclosure of his plantations.

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 90
surfaces 208
motifs 1614
scenes 110

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 97
  • architecture: 37
  • artefact: 6
  • indeterminate: 308
  • inscription: 27
  • other: 10
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 56
  • zoomorph: 1073
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 2
  • domestication: 1
  • duel: 1
  • hunt: 53
  • image and text: 6
  • inter-species group: 1
  • intra-species group: 5
  • mating: 1
  • none: 2
  • other: 13
  • pair: 10
  • predation: 14
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 2
  • clear: 31
  • medium: 223
  • dark: 1061
  • very dark: 294
  • unknown: 3
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 2
  • hammered: 1589
  • incised: 1
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 19
  • unknown: 3
    Period
  • contemporary: 5
  • historic: 65
  • pre-historic: 127
  • unknown: 1417
    Direction
  • front view: 31
  • left: 223
  • right: 3
  • reading sense: 294
  • aerial: 2
  • none: 1061
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 189
  • silhouette: 1217
  • combination: 13
  • unknown: 195
    Style
  • rectilinear: 144
  • curvilinear: 1
  • parallel: 43
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 51
  • rectotriangular: 39
  • triangular: 1
  • bitriangular: 3
  • Eurasian animal style: 13
  • other: 6
  • non specific: 1312