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assumption that the rearrangements which created the rooms IX and X, after the conflagration on floor V, were intended to house the bronze statue and shelter the rituals and sacrifices performed in honour of the god it represents.
But then where did the statue stand on floor III of room X, i.e. the floor which followed the rearrangements and on which the deposits of bowls were found ? Here we can only guess. In the southwest corner of the room we found in situ two slabs of stone, one longer and thicker (1) and another smaller and square (2). They were placed in the corner formed by the south wall of the room and the partition between rooms X and IX and their sides facing the interior of the room were roughly cut to form a semicircular line (pl.XVIII.2). If the assumption that the bronze statue stood on this floor is correct, this semicircular space enclosed by the two stones may have been occupied by the /wooden
(1)L. 56; W. 42; Th. 22 cms.
(2)L. 30; Th. 6 to 7 cms.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain