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Name      
Portugal    Beira Alta, Alto da Escrita EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
Portugal Image map
Keywords: Belt, parallel lines, necklace, statue-stele, Megalithism,.
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

 Portugal

Locality:

 Viseu, Tabuaço, Vale de Figueira; Alto da Escrita

Region:

 Beira Alta

Area:

 Beira Alta

 

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Alto da Escrita. DEalque dos motivos gravados nas quatro faces da estátua-estela (CARVALHO,P. et al. 1999)
Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

860 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:

Proximity:

 Vale Figueira

Geology:
Granito

Surface:
Nos lados e reverso apresenta traços feitos pelo arado. Apresenta ligeiro liscamento na zona mesial

Dimensions:
Length 1.66 m.  Width 0.44 m.  Depth 0.18 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Bloco em granito com forma vagamente antropomorfo (estátua-estela). Os motivos foram gravados por picotagem, por vezes seguida de polimento e apresentam secção em U. O conjunto é constituído pela face ? (ou colar), um cinturão que circunda a totalidade do esteio, e uma possível representação de arma.

Figures:
total number 10
Proto escultura antropómorfica (estátua-estela)

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Transição do III milénio para o II (cronologia obtida por comparação tipológica)

Notes:
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Beira Alta, Alto da Escrita bibliography, by IPT TomarSpecific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
O monumento foi encontrado no topo de um muro, em pedra vã, ladeando um caminho carreteiro. Tendo sido previamente levado para uma sala da Biblioteca Municipal de Tabuaço, onde se encontra provisoriamente.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Artur Jaime Duarte

Institution:

 IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
 
         Record n. 539 / 806
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
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