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rooms XIII and IX are connected with rituals in honour of the god whose image was kept in room X. The offerings are identical with those which were deposited on floor II in the area west of room IX a fact which, combined with the miniature gold of horns in room IX and immediately west of it, permits us to assume that the sacrificial offerings at this pre-destruction level as well as the libations evidenced by the bowl deposits in room X, were intended for a similar deity. This suggests that the bronze statue was already worshipped at the time of the bowl deposits (floor III) and of the gold horn and ox skull offerings in room IX and west of it (floor II). This could lead to the assumption
bronze statue in a pit is offered by the temple of Level I, phase B at Atchana-Alalakh, cf. Antiqua- ries Journal, XXX, 44 ff. and fig. 6. There the statue of king Idrimi was found in a pit dug into the brick platform of the temple near the northeast wall. King Idrimi belongs to the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century while the temple of Level I is 200 years later. According to Sir L. Woolley the statue had been preserved as an heirloom from the time of the temple of level III (early fourteenth century B.C.) and placed in the hole in the temple of Level I.
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