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1.	RA_PETR_TG_0384	herding scenes; cattle; figures; hunting scenes	Section of large outcrop irregularly covered with lichen and including two scenes from very different periods. On the left, a large, ithyphallic figure with raised arm and tail-like appendage overlays...

2.	RA_PETR_OI_0078	masks; caravans	Boulder with mask and caravan scene on side of stone (here poorly visible). Mask bears resemblance to Okunev culture masks from the Upper Yenisei.

3.	RA_PETR_TG_0385	hunting scenes	Detail of fine, kneeling archer with long, loose hair, aiming at argali or ibex partially hidden under lichen. Second argali or ibex on lower left, uncertain elements engraved below hunter.

4.	RA_PETR_OI_0079	masks	Detail of mask with long bull horns, on top of boulder.

5.	RA_PETR_TG_0386	cattle; herding scenes	Detail of large figure with raised arm, overlaying contoured, walking bovid. Quality of pecking and overlaid position suggests that the figure and dog were executed later than the bovid, creating a de...

6.	RA_PETR_AT_0054	ibex	Striped ibex, body partially lost in crumbling surface.

7.	RA_PETR_TG_0388	elk; predation scenes	Large, unfinished elk with large antlers; deep, course pecking. The elk is overlaid by an inverted, small elk attacked by a predator; and the person who pecked that group elongated the large elk's antlers....

8.	RA_PETR_AT_0055	rhinoceros	Large, rhinoceros-like animal executed in deep, rough peck marks; on small, horizontal fragment of bedrock.

9.	RA_PETR_AT_0056	horses; aurochs	Large aurochs overlaid by at least one horse (vertically over hips of bull). On horizontal fragment of bedrock at very top of section.

10.	RA_PETR_AT_0057	elk	Elk, executed in deep, rough peck marks; on worn fragment of bedrock at top of section.

11.	RA_PETR_AT_0058	bears; elk	Two bears and a fragment of an elk, all in silhouette and followed by a contoured antlered animal; on horizontal surface of section.

12.	RA_PETR_OI_0383	argali	Remains of a large argali that was once carefully pecked; now only the head pecking remains. This is on the same boulder as the figures in RA_PETR_OI_0382, but not related. Techniques.

13.	RA_PETR_OI_0384	argali	View of large argali, almost completely lost where the pecked surface has fallen out. Second ""lost"" animal, several small caprids. Techniques.

14.	RA_PETR_AT_0060	birds; horses; elk	Above: panel of ostriches partially overlaid by a horse; below: an elk (?) seemingly pecked over another animal.

15.	RA_PETR_AT_0061	birds; horses; elk	Detail of ostrich overlaid by horse. Elements on left uncertain.

16.	RA_PETR_AT_0062	birds; horses; frontal figures	Panel with two ostriches, two horses, and a possible frontal human figure between the two large birds. Other uncertain elements. This panel is now lost.

17.	RA_PETR_AT_0063	birds	Single ostrich facing right; unidentified pecked element.

18.	RA_PETR_TG_0144	stylized deer	Unfinished, outlined stylized deer with head raised to the right. On horizontal surface with satiny finish.

19.	RA_PETR_TG_0397	horned figures; horses	On high, deeply abraded horizontal surface, two, possibly horned, figures, head of an unfinished (?) horse, and variety of other elements.

20.	RA_PETR_AT_0064	birds	Large bird, possibly an ostrich, with unclear other marks. Badly damaged horizontal section.