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the same layer contained a stone trough (127), 0,58 m. in length, 0,38 m. in width and 0,28 m. in height, with a groove cut in the bottom ending in a hole through the base. It is not clear how this trough, which was partly damaged through use, came to be in the demolition layer. A similar disused trough was found turned upside down and placed in floor II of the neighbouring room IX, the base being flush with the surface of the floor. It appears then that the troughs were used in these rooms, probably in connection with some ritual and the presence of 275 bowls in room X also point to ritual. The presence of the trough in the destruction layer of room X can be explained if we assume that following the collapse of the superstructure some tidying up even partial removal of the debris may have taken place. In the course of an operation of this kind the trough and a fragment of the neck of a pithos (128, Pl. XXXVII, 3) may have been dislodged from their place and got mixed up with the debris.
The topmost floor (I), which had a surface of lime marl, represents the partial re-occupation of /the
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