One of three striped carnivores carved on a boulder
- Location
 - Alchi, Ladakh, India
 - Date
 - Iron Age (ca. 700–100 BCE)
 - Material
 - rock
 - Photo Credit
 - photograph by J. V. Bellezza
 
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Project Himalayan ArtAlchi Petroglyph Field
Ladakh, India; Iron Age (ca. 700–100 BCE)
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