Assertion: hoard | /r/CapableOf | represent communal votive offerings
Facets:
value: to the gods
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Most Roman coin hoards are traditionally believed to have been buried by their owners for safe-keeping, with the intention of being eventually recovered, but Sam Moorhead of the Portable Antiquities Scheme suggests that in this case the pot was so large and fragile that it could not have been easily recovered without breaking it, and so the hoard may represent communal votive offerings to the gods.