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St. Cyricus Discovery Is Just One Piece in a Larger Puzzle
This hoplite relief isn’t something unique, but literally represents one piece of a much larger puzzle. The terracotta slab belongs to a larger relief that at some point was broken into sections. This particular piece fits neatly with other slab puzzle pieces that were discovered within the remains of the two Apollonian temples during separate excavations.
“[The newly found fragments of the slab with Ancient Greek  hoplites] complement the ones [we] discovered in 2018 and 2019,” explained Bulgarian archaeologists and excavation leaders Krastina Panayotova, Margarit Damyanov, and Daniela Stoyanova in an official written statement. “They already number 20, a large part of which belong to the same scene.” The freshly reconstructed hoplite relief, which includes the latest piece inserted beside the others, has been on display at the Bulgarian Archaeology 2020 exhibit at the National Institute and Museum of ....

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