Monte Beigua Pietra Scritta

While it is thought that the stone is a natural ‘altar’ feauture which had significance in the Bronze Age, there is uncertainty about the age of the engravings. The earliest dates suggested are neolithic, the latest are medieval: http://www.archaeoastronomy.it/archaeo-astronomical_hypotheses_on_some_ligurian_engravings2.htm (International Rock Art Congress, 1999)

Latitude:
44° 26' 33.38 N
Longitude:
8° 31' 59.83 E
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Images

Image of Monte Beigua Pietra Scritta (Engraved stone) by Ligurian Tommy Leggy

just in front of the “written stone” there’s this small one with its particular engraving.

Image credit: Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy Jul 16, 2008
Image of Monte Beigua Pietra Scritta (Engraved stone) by Ligurian Tommy Leggy

not such a great picture but can you see the stylized man (with arms and legs) inscribed between a space made by three lines ?

Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy Jul 1, 2008
Image of Monte Beigua Pietra Scritta (Engraved stone) by Ligurian Tommy Leggy

Here it’s shown where the ancients put their offerings or lit their candles

Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy Jul 1, 2008
Image of Monte Beigua Pietra Scritta (Engraved stone) by Ligurian Tommy Leggy

I like to think this engrave can be the “fairy-eel"singing.

Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy Jul 1, 2008

Articles

Monte Beigua Pietra Scritta

Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Ligurian Tommy Leggy Jul 1, 2008

Always grateful to Mr Italo Pucci and Mr M Fenoglio from the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri, to the memory of whom I want to dedicate my little work in this site. Because of them I found this great engraved Sacred Stone. It stands on the northern slopes of Monte Beigua on a bank of the river Traversa and it has to do with a water cult.

It appears as a big blackboard where people wrote through the centuries. So engraved there you’ll find prehistoric sacred images together with christian crosses (specially made to exorcise the stone...) together with much more modern engravings, such as people’s names. Anyway the oldest engravings are recognisable and still remarkable.

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