A wooden mask belonging to a character in a long-forgotten drama.
Forgotten speech-patterns: accents, intonations, pauses, foot-prints. Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese, the Portuguese being the most numerous, and the Arabic and Spanish the least so far as we know.
We can deduce from the general appearance of the room that the party was lavish, perhaps even grandiose, and that it did not leave anyone unsatisfied: everyone, in his or her turn, had something to gain and something to lose.
The question was, how to best allocate these gifts?