Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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found many handles of small terra cotta vases with the letter A, or Alpha, inscribed upon them. We named the temple, therefore, Temple A, A for Apollo, or A with the hope that we might/later find Temple B. As many Cyprian temples, this one disregards the usual ancient orientation, for it faces south, and not east. The evidence of the pottery and other finds makes it undoubtedly a Roman building; later, however, under the foundations of the temple, we discovered traces of walls having a different orientation and, therefore, belonging to another and earlier building. This was most likely an early Greek temple. In the following Spring, we laid bare the many steps leading up to the entrance of the south end of the temple.

In the second trench appeared a rock-cut water conduit (Plan, Fig. 7) and just northwest of it, and about three feet above it, a terra cotta drain pipe which was later found to lead from a fair-sized rectangular Roman cistern. We traced the conduit and pipes in a northeasterly direction from Temple A by sinking small pits at various intervals for some thirty-five metres. Here it was found to make a sharp turn eastward toward a mound some 20 metres away (Fig. 8). We later approached this mound from two opposite sides and soon laid bare a small temple, Temple B, (Fig. 9), 13.50 metres long, by 8.35 metres wide. Like temple A, it faces south; It has a naos and pro-naos. There is a moulded base running along the south, east, and west sides. It is preserved to a fair height and is of good, probably 2nd Century-Roman, construction. The building has at least three distinct periods, … continues