“…Incorporating several walls of the Early Dilmun palace, the Late Dilmun palace is a sprawling, multi‐roomed building complex which, although originally called a palace by its excavators, is now considered instead ‘a number of domestic units, of very different sizes, each consisting of a complex of rooms with a main entrance at one end and a lavatory at the other’, although part of the complex (Sector A) ‘seems to deviate from this basic structure, and presents indications for a public, perhaps sacral function’ (4). The two rooms in which snake sacrifices were recorded belong to two different ‘sectors’ of the complex.…”