Heritage record
Chitarparhi Cup Marks
Azad Jammu and KashmirRock ArtProtected
The site is situated near Mangla Dam on south of Dina, on road to Mirpur main road, at about 4 km from Mirpur city. A large number of cup marks can be found on the top and ridges of isolated granite and sandstone boulders on horizontal and vertical surfaces, sometimes together with petroglyphs. At Chitarpari these cup marks are found on several boulders along with the rock carvings. The site is dated from 3rd to 1st Millennium BCE.
- Record ID
- 6611
- Province / territory
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- District
- Mirpur
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Pre Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.14431, 73.85700 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ashraf, Ghani-ur-Rahman. (2020). Threat to the Cultural Heritage of Pakistan Survey and Documentation of Tangible and Intangible Heritage of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 2020.
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