rupestral

Adjective

rupestral (not comparable)

1. Made on or placed on rock surfaces.
   • Having departed from Sardis and before reaching the mnema of Tos, the traveller saw a monument which was either a free-standing pillar or a rupestral tablet, depending on how we interpret the word.^([στήλη (stḗlē)])1982, William Kendrick Pritchett, Studies in Ancient Greek Topography, page 277
   • In the course of the last decade, a fair number of ancient rupestral (rock-cut) horoi have been published from various sites in southern Attica.1995, Josiah Ober, “Greek Horoi: Artifactual Texts and the Contingency of Meaning”, in David B. Small, editor, Methods in the Mediterranean: Historical and Archaeological Views on Texts &...
2. Constructed in rock; made of rock.
   • On the north side of the city, just outside the wall, the rupestral sanctuary of S. Biagio consists of a series of artificial caves or tunnels in the rocky hillside.2007, Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide, page 82
   • The sculpted and columnar rupestral tombs of Achaemenid Paphlagonia, the mountainous Black Sea region west of the Halys (Kızıl Irmak), are equally fascinating in their place-making qualities and their deliberate use of the living rock.2011, Ömür Harmaşah, 28: Monuments an Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History, Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon (editors), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia...
3. Growing on rocks.
   • The rupestral species have been the next class of lichens to suffer from the atmospheric pollution; and the effects are particularly noticeable in the hilly districts in the eastern part of South Lancashire.1915, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany, volume 43, Linnean Society of London, page 93
   • By contrast, in the oak woodland on a steep hillside at Keskadale in Cumberland the occurrence is solely rupestral.1973, James Holms Dickson, Bryophytes of the Pleistocene, page 123