1952–April 1953

the completion of the program. Try something like "the construction/laying/ P.2, L.7: Paphos Gate is as much our name as West Propylon is, but the pavement, that reaching to the Paphos Gate, was constructed. and completion of

L.11: Is Apollo Caesar named inscription gives good warrant for it. I should call it PG on the plan now that we know - or think we do - just where the main gate was one? I don't recall. It would be well to be a little cautious here. Since worship of the Emperor was common east of Italy, Ap.Hy. may have received the additional epithet some time before 100, and not be surprising before the west half of 'Temple A' was built. (It would not be a good long time if there was an Apollo Caesar in the reign of Nero, who was a poet and a singer!)

L.14-15: Ought not the fact that the west half is later than the eastern to be stated, rather than just implied? The plan fig.2 shows no difference between the two parts, except by omitting the north door of the western section. (The doorway exists, of course.) Is there any evidence of rebuilding of the eastern half? As you know, I have been hoping that you would find somewhere in the East a temple of form analogous to this. So far, we have called it Temple A because of its position at the highest point in the sanctuary in spite of the fact that it is later than Temple B, which has the standard plan of a temple. This floor is not that of a house; at least it -L.19-22: nothing in the ring: ...

Though I fear that I suggested, and once almost believed, that there might be a connection between the five names on the ring and the halls of the South Building, I certainly no longer think so. The ring with its multitude of five names and there is no place in it, lifted by the ring. doors, for the treasure chest that had the marble cover still with us, I think - I seem to recall having the ring - while John and Sue were reading about When I last examined the ring, it is not advisable now to connect it interpretation. However that may be, it is not conjectural. The ... L.27: Better: immediately the court; rather the east of the South Building is L.28: It doesn't consist! ... the the E-W dimension is near 20m belong to the - than 38m. The extra 8m or so shown better be assumed not the it must sentence. building proper until further excavation shows that the three sides of the -is kept, you'll have to get the rooms engaged half-columns with two adjacent round the court. As the plan stands the court 'Square piers with Doric/ P.4, Ll.1-2: Try 'Square piers with ..."

(not that I like this much now; I have suggested it; but I think 'square' better be specified: 'One of them being a good place to give full height if since it is known exactly) "justified as the characteristic of this (east of) - the broad stairway, though likely as not from the court leading up to the - been pvedn once. ?! One entered the pavement. The doorconate the foot of the great stairway leading, if it appears on the plan - as it does seas way itself can be taken for granted, if it appears in a phrase to the remains not now. L.5 &c: would it not be well to refer then to the relatively on the east and south sides of the court, and then turn into one of two im- L.6: This room is not just the most important one: its western rooms well preserved. Witness the niches with statuary, the threshold higher portant ones: it is the more ornate door-frame, paved with stone, columns spathan the others, its axis: allow it to have been - basis inside; only its intercolumniation in its axis: allow it to have been - niced so as to bring an height to too great 'height, round three sides of the room?' (Of course VL.7-8: Is the basis preserved as part of a bench/platform in the next room). L.12: What is meant by later than the bench/platform in three sides of the room?' (Of course Middle Empire? If the reader looks in a dictionary he will find it = the Middle Kingdom of Egypt."