Heritage record
Gogdara
Khyber PakhtunkhwaRock ArtProtected
This specimen of rock art was discovered in 1955 by Prof. G. Tucci, has more than one hundred carvings on a rocky cliff at the foot of the hill, the rock face presents some 118 figures incised or executed as graffiti on the cliff surface, some 71 animal figures have been identified. On another rock there are four seated human figures including a defaced Maitreya in lalitasana on the extreme right. He holds a water pot. Then there is a defaced Avalokitesvara in lalitasana in pensive mood. The figures are not in good state of preservation.
- Record ID
- 9768
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Swat
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Pre Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.74220, 72.29269 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Sardar, Badshah. (2005). Buddhist Rock Carvings In Tributary Valleys. Buddhist Rock Carvings In the Swat Valley.
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