The site
Riparo Cristina is a limestone rock shelter with rock art figures discovered by Piero Ceruleo and Marcello Zei in the 1980s.
The rock art
The rock art consists of one anthropomorphic figure and one illegible inscription which is interpreted by Ceruleo and Zei as the signature of the rock art artist. According to the authors, the contemporary of the rock art figure and the iscription is suggested by the patina. They also suggested that the iscription is written by using the so-called Caroline minuscule script which developed as a calligraphic standard in medieval Europe. For this reason, according to Ceruleo and Zei the rock art figure and the iscription can be dated to medieval time.
Bibliography
1984
La figura umana del Riparo Cristina (M. Ausoni - Latina) Journal Article
In: Studi per l’Ecologia del Quaternario, vol. 6, pp. 125-127, 1984.
Paintings
2 in black colour
Engravings
none
Rock shelter dimensions
not provided
Orientation
not provided
Altitude of the entrances
250m a.s.l.