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petroglyph

images carved on a rock surface as a form of rock art
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Summary

petroglyph ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,846 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: drawing[2], archaeological artefact[3], rock art[4]
  • Commons category: Petroglyphs[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Petroglyphs[6]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: archaeological_site=petroglyph[7]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[8], Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[9], Q105336459[10]
  • Manifestation of: pictogram[11]
  • Different from: geoglyph[12]
  • Properties for this type: P18[13], P17[14], P131[15], P706[16], P625[17], P2044[18], P373[19], P1435[20], P808[21]
  • P14369: 70180[22]
  • P14692: Casalino[23]

Why It Matters

petroglyph has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] petroglyph is known by 79 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Liber008 · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14369 → 70180
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14369: 70180, Matched to #mix'n'match [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/283040683|Rock Carving (#283040683)]] for {{P|14369}}"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Casalino
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → petroglyphs
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: petroglyphs, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954707|petroglyphs (#289954707)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0332863-petroglyfy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0332863-petroglyfy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → geoglyph
    Manifestation of → pictogram
    Subclass of → drawing, archaeological artefact, rock art
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 27963, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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