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Name      
Italia    Valtellina, Rupe Magna (The Big Rock), sector AC EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: cup-marks, Iron Age, warriors, snakes, oranti
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
Record
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Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy
 
Location
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Country:

Italia

Locality:

Dosso dei due Castelli (The two Castles Hill), Grosio

Region:

Lombardia

Area:

Valtellina

 

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General tracing of sector AC. Rupe Magna (tracing by Orme dell'Uomo 1995)
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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:

740 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
The Rupe Magna (Big Rock) is on th top of a hill, in a prominent position, in the right side of the Valtellina. Around the rock the land is used to pasture and farmland.

Proximity:

In the proximity there are two medieval castles, a path and an old house used as archaeological and ethnographical museum.

Geology:

The Rupe Magna is a big rock of schist, gneiss and quartz. It is completely polished by two different glaciers, one parallel to the Valtellina and one to the Valgrosina.

Surface:

The surface is polished, convex and irregular. The shape of the rock is similar to a whale.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The sector AC of Rupe Magna is a very flat, concave and small surface, near sectors AJ and AE. It is in the middle part of the Rupe and has a triangular shape. The surface of schist is polished by the glacier and the engravings are executed by percussion and abrasion. On the surface there are 30 figures: especially cup-marks, oranti (praying figures) and snakes. In this part of the rock they are very well represented Iron Age and Bronze Age. A lot of figures are not identified for shape and chronology. Some natural cracks and detachments damage the surface.

Figures:
total number 30
3 oranti (praying figures), 14 group of points, 1 bird, 1 anthropomorph, 2 snakes, 3 cup-marks, 1 circle, 3 figures not identified and 2 warriors.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
10 figures of Iron Age (style IV 1-2; VIII-VI cent. BC), 18 figures have an unknown chronology, 2 figures of Bronze Age (style III B-C; end of II millennium BC).

Notes:

More info about Valtellina and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Italia EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)General (country)
Specific Valtellina, Rupe Magna (The Big Rock), sector AC bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)Specific (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:

Originally the engraved surface was covered by grass and soil, which were removed when discovered (2 August 1966 by Davide Pace) and than, when studied (1985-1995 by Footsteps of Man) the rock was washed. The rock has been completely recorded (contact tracing, grazing light pictures) by Footsteps of Man in 1985-1995. In 1995 the study of the rock was published by Footsteps of Man.

 

By          

Compiler:

E. Marchi 2001

Institution:

Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
 
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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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