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We shall see (infra p. ) that it is in one of these newly created rooms (X) that the bronze statue of the horned god was found but in a subsequent level; but it is on the floor (III) which followed the re-arrangements that three deposits of bowls giving evidence of some ritual were laid bare in situ (Pl.XVIII.2, XIX). We shall also see that in the area west of the adjoining room IX it was on the corresponding floor and its immediate successor that skulls of oxen were found in situ (Pl.XXI.2). Following the collapse on floor II such skulls of oxen occur in room XIII, to the north of that in which the bronze statue was found, in a pit dug in the layer resulting from the collapsed pisé walls (Pl.XXI.1). These observations are of importance and will be dealt with later in greater detail. (infra p. ).
The question of access into room X (of the bronze statue) has been obscured by a pit dug by tomb searchers at the point where the partition wall abutting on the east side of pillar (16) joined the the "pilaster" engaged to the east wall of the room (wall 12). Indeed here is the only possible point /where
Handwritten: 216
Handwritten: 127
Handwritten: ? annotations: "so they wd be clear" (handwritten, near "collapsed pisé walls")
Handwritten: "ch. 2" marks in margin; "wh. 2" above "floor"
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain