I have argued that room 5 was the main shrine but what about 4? The architecture and the finds suggest that it was a preparation room. There was a bath-tub and a bronze cauldron in the corner 4a which must have been used in connection with water. A bench with a slit in the middle was connected to a drain pipe that ran vertically down the outside wall. This indicated that water or liquids were poured down there. A table of offerings and a lion's head rhyton, as well as cups, were among the finds which suggest offerings... |
Room 4a of the West House
Christos Doumas has identified that there was an installation of a toilet and bathroom in Room 4a. Doumas states that the only rooms in the houses at Akrotiri, Thera that can be identified with evidence are the toilets. Nanno Mariantos disagrees with Doumas' interpretation and suggests that it may have been used for religious acts as a room for preparing the offerings that were made in Room 5. |