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… extension of floor V into the area of these rooms was dug up and removed because it had been damaged in the conflagration necessitating a new floor for each of the newly created rooms IX and X. Actually these new floors (III) in these rooms are at the level of floor V of room XIII, i.e. 12.63 in room X and 12.70 in room IX approximately. The fact that these floors abutted on all the new partition walls just mentioned proves that they are subsequent to the rearrangements which followed the conflagration. It was on the new floor in room X that we found three impressive piles of bowls and other finds, while in floor I of the same room was the pit containing the bronze statue of a horned god. It therefore appears that the rearrangements at this point aimed at providing two small rooms for some particular purposefor a ritual purpose I suggest below - and that these rearrangements involved the destruction of the original floor of room X + IX corresponding with floor V in room XIII and the formation of new floors for the newly created rooms on top of a filling. It was in the material for this filling that so many early /sherds
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