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Photographs in 2002 High Tibet Circle Expedition (HTCE)

Funerary structure FS1. Members of the survey team are measuring the funerary superstructure. The array of pillars and appended edifice in profile. The array of pillars and appended edifice. The array of pillars. Note the many collapsed specimens among the standing pillars. Funerary structure FS8. Tarap Tso (<i>rta rabs mtsho</i>) is just visible in the upper left corner of the image. Also in the background, the snow peaks of Orok Gangri (<i>o rog gangs ri</i>), the local territorial deity (<i>yul lha</i>) are visible. Funerary structure FS4. Other specimens of the southwest group are situated on or near the spine of the ridge. Funerary structure FS3. Funerary structure FS4.
Funerary structure FS1. The ancillary ovoid enclosure of FS2. The site’s lone pillar. The site’s lone pillar. The site’s lone pillar. The north face of the in situ pillar. Note the way in which the light-colored granite has turned red in color. The site, seen from the northwest. The site, seen from the east.
The site, seen from the west. The main row of pillars (center) and two other pillars (foreground). The large Dzatsok (<i>rdza tshogs</i>) Basin is in the background. The main row of pillars. The proximate rectangular structure is visible immediately left of the main row of pillars. On the left side of the image some of the minor standing stones of the site can be made out. The row of four broken pillars northeast of the rectangular structure. The main row of pillars and associated structures. Note the corral to the left of the pillars. Two specimens in the main row of pillars. Funerary structure FS1.
Funerary structure FS2. <i>Maṇi</i> walls can be seen near the survey team motor vehicles. Terraced funerary structure FS4. Note the high forward wall and the way in which the side wall merges into the slope. Terraced funerary structure FS1. Terraced funerary structure FS6. The lower reaches of the north sector with terraced funerary structure FS13 in the foreground. Terraced funerary structure FS5. Note the way in which the side wall is deeply set into the slope. The twin pyramidal spurs of the site from the east. A revetment fragment of the south spur.

2002 High Tibet Circle Expedition (HTCE) in Topic


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