ВТОРИЯТ СКАЛЕН РЕЛЕФ КРАЙ МАДАРА – ОПИСАНИЕ И АНАЛИЗ
SECOND ROCK-CUT RELIEF NEAR MADARA – DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century Karel Škorpil studied the surroundings of the Madara rocks and registered Thracian sites from the Roman period, Old Bulgarian and even medieval Bulgarian sites. The area has a rich and centuries-old cult history, but the public consciousness is dominated by the Great Madara rock relief of a horseman. However, Škorpil registered another smaller rock relief nearby, which had already been destroyed in his time. The small Madara relief is located on the Daul-Tash rock block between the villages of Madara and Kyulevcha. Today it is practically forgotten, difficult to access, unvisited. Archeologists and historians pay no attention to this object. In the present report the Small Madara relief is rediscovered, a convenient route to it is established, it is photographed with modern equipment and several hypotheses are proposed about its presumed content, as well as about its destruction. The author hopes that the Small Relief deserves to be rehabilitated as a valuable historical site. The presence of a second rock relief is extremely important for clarifying the general picture of the sacred area, including the villages Kalugeritsa-Madara-Kyulevcha.

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