Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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large unfluted drums that supported the Stoa lie among the ruins north of the building. The north wall is now lying on the ground and can be seen with the great door jambs just as it was when it stood upright before it fell (Fig. 17).

The South Building is Roman, of the 2nd or 3rd Century A.D. The interior colonnades are of the Roman-Doric order. The evidence of the pottery and other finds also testifies to its being a Roman building. The building served almost undoubtedly as administrative offices for the priests of the Sanctuary. We may have the actual name of the building on nine pieces of marble, found near one of the thresholds leading out of the Stoa, on which the following words appear:

"of the Prytaneion". (Fig. 18) [handwritten: Tοῦ Πρυτανείου / TOO PRYTANEIOU]

A Prytaneion is a public administrative building, the word being derived from Prytan, the Greek word for deputy. The deputies of Athens used to have their meals in the Prytaneion and often entertained there foreign ambassadors. The children of men fallen in battle also had the privilege of having their meals at the Prytaneion, at public expense. Perhaps the priests of the Sanctuary lived and had their meals in the South Building as well as attending in it to the affairs of the Sanctuary.

In one of the rooms of the South Building, or Prytaneion, if we are justified in so calling it, we found a life-size marble statue of a draped female figure lying just under one of the colonnades. (Fig. 19). It is in a fairly good