 Complete the following phrase:  Although it has faced criticism, the domit scholarly interpretation of these deposits is that they represent war booty captured from enemy soldiers. In this, the weapon deposits have been termed the spoils of victory. One suggestion is that the deposits represent the fulfillment of a contract with supernatural entities; in such a scenario, the victorious side had entered into a contractual obligation rooted in gift-exchange whereby they agreed to offer up their war booty in payment for victory. Accounts of artifacts being sacrificed to the gods appear on various textual sources authored by Roman writers from this period; one of these appears in the Annals of Tacitus, which claims that after a battle in which the Hermunduri tribe defeated the Chatti in a battle of 58 CE, the victors devoted the enemys army to Mars and Mercury, a vow which consigns horses, men, everything indeed on the vanquished side to destruction. An earlier source, the Historiae Adversum Paganos of Orosius, states that following the 