Internal
The interior of the enclosure is, like the exterior, divided into two overlapping areas separated by a band decorated with palmettes.
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In the lower register the decoration, simplified, seems to reproduce the pattern of the axes of the wooden fence that delimited the sacred space; the upper register on the other hand, is enriched by a motif of festoons and bucrania (animal skulls) interspersed with paterae or ritual cups.