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Plevna (Pleven)

Plevna occupies an important position in the lower Danube hinterland historically connected with Roman Moesia.

Locus

Storgosia (Pleven)

Storgosia was a Roman road station and later a fortress, located in the modern Kaylaka Park in the vicinity of modern Pleven (North-central Bulgaria). Pleven is today the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Plevna

Marble tauroctony relief from Plevna (Pleven), Moesia Inferior, found between the remnants of a demolished church, depicting the standard bull-slaying in a grotto with dog, serpent, and scorpion.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Kreta

Sandstone tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Kreta (Крета), depicting Mithras within a vaulted grotto accompanied by the torchbearers, Sol and Luna.