Tauroctony of Gérman

In September 2014 in the Sofia History Museum was given a part of a relief found accidentally in the village of Gérman. The fragment had been reused as a step, turn with the image downwards.

Оnly the lower half of the plate is preserved: 0.69 m of width, maximum height of 0.42 m, 0.10 m of thickness. The relief is made of fine-grained gray-white marble, with precise details submitted.

In the center of the relief in a circular medallion with external dimension of 0.53 meters, a human figure facing right is depicted. With his left knee he pushes an animal (a bull) to the ground. The

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