How many prime numbers are there whose squares' decimal representation consist solely of integer squares?

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I am on the hunt for prime squares which decimal digits build up squares.

The smallest I have found is:

$$7^2 = 49 \cases{4=2^2\\ 9=3^2}$$

Another one is $$191^2 = 36481 \cases{36=6^2\\4=2^2\\81=9^2}$$ and $$223^2 = 49729 \cases{49=7^2\\729=27^2}$$

So we can conclude that there do exist at least a few.

Now to the question, how many of these can we find?

Can we prove there can only be finite?

Or can we estimate some distribution?

To make a more strict formulation:

Let us assume the prime square has $n$ decimal digits

  1. neighboring digits can be grouped together in a non-overlapping way

  2. each group consisting of at least $1$ digit and at most $n-1$ digits