Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

Excavations were resumed on the Sanctuary of Apollo on March 14th and continued until the end of June. During this period two large buildings were cleared in part; the main temple of Apollo, previously known as Temple A, and a new building, now referred to as the Southeast Building, which immediately adjoins the South Building on the east side. (plan, fig. 1.)

Excavations were begun on the main temple before the war, but only just enough of the debris was cleared to reveal its bare outlines. As a result of this season's work we now have a much better understanding of its main features.

One approached the temple in antiquity either from east or west over a large paved square between the temple and the South Building (plan, fig. 1). Those who came from the city of Kourion would enter the eastern gate between the Bathing [handwritten: establishment] and the Southeast Building. Those coming from Paphos and points west passed through the West Propylon, or gateway, to the south of the West Building.

The temple (plan, fig. 2) faces south on the large paved square and is raised above it on a built up platform. With its stairway it measures on the platform 42.35x15.20 m. [handwritten: Its commanding] approximately 33.100 m/ (the length of the cella is 8.00?)

or pteron. If it had a porch, it was only a shallow one not deeper than the landing at the top of the stairway. The paved floor here gives no hint as to where the porch columns, if such there were, once stood. It is a double temple with two cellas instead of the usual one. Each cella had a central nave with two side aisles. The floor of the aisles are raised above those of the naves behind a continuous colonnade in the Doric order. The columns stood on a

was the main temple of Apollo. It is without a peripteral colonnade, the central area of the sanctuary make it almost certain that this position, plan, and orientation with respect to other buildings in … continues