Three layers of imagery: Bronze Age figure with large headdress; three crude riders from the Iron Age; and more recent, crude frontal figure. On vertical surface of outcrop.
Detail of RA_PETR_TG_0388, showing the way in which the small animal was pecked over the large elk and the differences between the large and small elk in pecking quality and patina.
Small, vital elk with large antlers; dense, re-patinated pecking. Contrast fine, indirect pecking of the elk with the cruder, direct execution of the more recent goat on the right. Flat, scraped bedrock.
Detail of large hunting scene: three archers, upper one unfinished and executed with deeply gouged lines; archers on right and left shown in process of drawing their large bows. Archer on left carries a large quiver at his waist.
Group of antlered animals that appear to have been rescraped at various periods since first pecked in the Bronze Age. Two hunters with long bows in the center and on the right. Vertical surface of outcrop.
Boulder with lower section uncovered to reveal a large figure leading a loaded animal (horse?). Above, by another hand, a stag executed in Arzhan style and a figure riding a bull or horse.
Detail of scene with hunters surrounding a large, wild horse. The men carry spears and bows as well as large daluur. The figure on the left wears a ""horned"" hat.
Detail of large bear hunt: archer (feet lost in lichen) raising his bow and preparing to shoot at a large bear above. On the left, a goat and, below, an unclear animal—possibly an unfinished tethered horse.
Two couples in erotic embrace; a small goat on the right. The couple below is done much more finely than that above and seems to be in a style that is earlier; but the re-patination of both couples is similar.
East side of large panel with stylized deer. Above, a realistic stag; in the center, a highly stylized stag; and, below, where the earth has been cleared away, a pair of highly stylized deer. Red, broken surface of large outcrop.
Two figures with raised and readied bows. The figure on the left wears a large hat, carries a daluur, and appears to have some kind of a protective jacket. The figure on the right is more schematic, as are the caprids on the right.
Large hunting scene with small archer, a woman standing above and to the left (?), many animals including some finely pecked goats, below. On boulder with scraped, cracked surface.
Images pecked on broken rock faces, including a Bronze Age hunter (upper left), a Bronze Age horse and bull (lower center) and a variety of other images.
Sloping surface of outcrop. Two archers with recurved bows. One archer wears a three-horned headdress. Above are two fine, darkly patinated and almost invisible elk. Below is a cruder elk, apparently the animal being hunted.
Crude archer drawing long bow in direction of a large stag attacked by two dogs or wolves; second figure approaches from the right. On boulder surface.
Large section of bedrock, cracked and split, section on right revealing grey matrix. The scene on the left includes several hunters with bows and spears surrounding a large horse. Elk, argali, and ibex around the scene.
Wolf or feline with long tail chasing a large argali. Note the unfinished horn, the shifting patination from whitish to brown. Pecked, scraped bedrock.
Detail of three riders/hunters from the upper part of the panel, showing possibility of variation in the execution of images even when they may have been executed at the same time and by the same hand. Note the similarity between the three in terms of the postures of the riders and they manner in which they sit their horses.
Group of animals of which the three largest are probably by the same hand: stag on left, followed by dogs or wolves, two long-horned yak, one unfinished. On horizontal surface of outcrop.
Large scene with frontal figures, variety of animals, several large water birds, and possibly two figures in combat above. On long, sloping surface with much of the pecking muted from wear.
Small hunter with mushroom shaped hat and two boar—one executed in a fine late Bronze Age style (Arzhan?), the other cruder. On a badly ruined, over-pecked vertical surface.
Detail of damaged panel with tall hunter visible under the white goat. The patina of the hunter is dark red-brown, he wears a typical Bronze Age hat, and his knees are bent to the left.
Several animals on high, rough outcrop just west of large bulls; in the center is a large deer head of the type known as ""Oglakhty,"" associated with the Sayan Mountain region.
Large scene with enigmatic elements: in lower right, three figures, two fighting and holding large daggers; to their left, two figures positioned as if shooting at each other with long lines indicating flight of arrows. Above, a row of vertical elements attached by two lines, like a fence or other barrier. Figures carry the rounded daluur characteristic of the Bronze Age. Scene is pecked on the flat surface of a grey boulder.
Horizontal surface with several animals reflecting three different periods: a Bronze Age yak, below; a fine, stylized deer with exaggerated antlers, above; and a somewhat later, still whitish realistic elk on the right.
Two men apparently swinging around the heads of two confronting bulls. The leg of the bull on the left overlays an earlier, scored image. Modern mark on upper left.
Profile animal originally outlined with clear contours, pecked, and possibly scored over earlier, somewhat random pecking. Chaulky patination shifting to dark coloration.
Small boulder with scraped western face on which are finely pecked 10 wheeled vehicles with their drivers and horses. Several other later, large elements pecked on the upper left side indicating that the boulder broke apart by the Late Bronze Age.
Fine bull or yak with lowered head and round horns on cracked and abraded outcrop. Uneven coloration reflects the transitional process of re-patination and is typical of images from this period.
Detail of larger section at edge of outcrop, with fine confronting horse and yak. Like the hunter in RA_PETR_TG_0394, these vertically placed images demonstrate delayed re-patination.
Small hunter on vertical, cracking surface. The hat, daluur, and clothing of the figure indicates a Bronze Age date; but the light patina indicates how the process of redarkening can be quite delayed on vertical surfaces.
Horse rider holding a weapon behind his back and the reins of his horse in his other hand. The degree of re-patination, the treatment of the horse's mane, and the apparent lack of stirrups indicates Early Iron Age.
Slab covered with large elk images and other animals; a small archer-hunter is visible above the animals. The slab has fallen from the cliff against which it is leaning. One of the large animals has been recently repecked.
Dog confronting a plantigrade bull; bear above and a small stag below, uncertain animal on left. On variegated vertical surface. Note that the small stag was pecked over the area from which the original surface fell out.
One of three riders with other animals, pecked into sloping side of large, deeply scraped outcrop. Style and transitional patina indicate a Late Bronze or Early Iron Age date.