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Photographs in 2001 Upper Tibet Antiquities Expedition (UTAE)

Düja (<i>bdud bya</i> or <i>skyung ka</i>) birds soaring above the site. A close-up of a structural band used to support a heavy roof assembly. The sockets and masonry band used to support a second story are visible in this image. Another view of the site’s largest pillars. The site’s pillars. The south wall of the enclosure. The site’s largest pillars. The site’s two rooted pillars. Note the sacred Bon lake Gunggyü Tso (<i>gung rgyud mtsho</i>) in the background.
The shorter in situ pillar. The site’s still standing and uprooted pillars. The tallest in situ pillar. Gunggyü Tso (<i>gung rgyud mtsho</i>) can just be made out in the background. Funerary structure FS5. Funerary structure FS3. Funerary structure FS1 in the foreground with other enclosures visible. The two standing stelae are faintly visible near the upper right corner of the image. Funerary structure FS2. The interconnected funerary structures of FS1.
A double-course cobble wall of funerary structure FS3. The interconnected enclosures of funerary structure FS11 are in the foreground and those of the much larger funerary structure FS12 in the background. The heaped-stone walls of funerary structure FS8. A neatly built double-course wall of funerary structure FS4. The rocky flank of the south summit. The saddle connecting the south and north summits. The dense structural traces of the south summit. Structural detritus on the high point of the north summit.
The dissolving ruins of the north summit. Residential site north of the main structures. The well-built wall fragments at the site. Residential site north of the main structures. The structural dispersion of the site. The cave and ruins. The west side of the main edifice. The rear tier of rooms in the main edifice. Note the intact entranceway.

2001 Upper Tibet Antiquities Expedition (UTAE) in Topic


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