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… stags' antlers and other animal bones. In the space west of room IX, into which the latter communicated through a doorway, we found on floor II six skulls of oxen (Pl.XXI.2; XXII.3-5) or of other horned animals, more gold-sheet horns, traces of fire, a statuette of a bronze bull (Pl.LXXV.2) and other finds.
Moreover in each of the two rooms IX and X we found a disused stone trough with a groove in the bottom leading to a drain-hole cut through the base. In the first room the trough was upside down with the base flush with floor II, while that in room X was in the destruction layer between floor II and I. Both troughs were worn through much use.
The presence on floor III of the deposits of bowls in room X and of the animal bones, the miniature horns and other gold objects in room IX and the presence of so many skulls of oxen in the area to the west of it surely suggest other than domestic uses. It is not difficult to imagine that both rooms X and IX and the area west of the latter were / used … continues
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