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Name      
Italia    Valle Po - Bric Lombatera EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: cup marks, panoramic, channels, Iron age
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
Record
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Location
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Country:

 Italia

Locality:

 Paesana - Bric Lombatera

Region:

 Piemonte

Area:

 Valle Po

 

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Bric Lombatera, the main cup-marked stone and, looking west, the panoramic view: on the back the Monviso (3841 m, photo A. Arcà - Footsteps of Man 1997)
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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:

1390 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Large and rounded intermediate top of a northward exposed slope, abandoned extended pasture, 360° of panoramic view, wood of larches and birches below, various stone-wall buildings, skiing area

Proximity:

 Path

Geology:
Micaschist, quartz veins

Surface:
Rough, flat, fractures, steps, from 0° to 5° of inclination, patina, yellow and brown lichens

Dimensions:
Length 4.80 m.  Width 2.60 m.  Depth 7.00 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The rock is situated on the top of the hilly crest, it is surrounded in the close area by other 13 cup-marked rocks, and it seems to represent the most important one. It is not to be excluded an artificial positioning of this rock. The engraved surface is divided in three sectors, all flat and not inclined, with many cup-marks, sometimes large, deep and connected by a web of channels, mostly in the upper surface, where a large basin (32 cm of diameter, 12 cm deep) seems to represent the most important feature.

Figures:
total number 39
39 cup-marks, basins and channels

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The dating of the cup-marked stone has always been controversial. Various elements anyway make probable an Iron Age dating for the similar Alpine cup-marks, as an iron tool is needed for such a deep and vertical- wall engraving. The study of the superimpositions in the Rupe Magna (Valtellina - I), where cup-marks cover some warriors figures, clarify an Iron Age dating, also confirmed by the Susa (I) cup-marks, executed over a rock cut with an iron pick and overlapped by a Roman building.

Notes:
The area represent one of the more important concentration of cup-marked stones in the western Alps. The position and the panoramic view is exceptional, dominated by the impressive huge and high body of the Monviso mountain (3848 m), with a pyramidal shape and an height 500 m higher of all the surrounding mountains and dominating the entire Piedmont plane. This situation could represent a good confirmation of the theory connecting the cup-marked stones to the cult of the divinity of the mountain tops.
 
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 Valle Po - Bric Lombatera 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:
The area is open for tourists. Many amateurs chalk the engravings and put candles inside the cup-marks to "enhance" pictures or to demonstrate star-related theories.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
The rock has been recorded (International western Alps rock art record), photographed (normal light colour slides) under enchargement of the Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Andrea Arcà

Institution:

 Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
 
         Record n. 494 / 807
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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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