Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

Continued from scan 22

… stylobate consisting of a course of plinths over a course of moulded orthostates. A central wall, once the west wall of a smaller single temple, separates the west aisle of the east cella from the east aisle of the west one. These two aisles are interrupted at the north end to permit the east nave with its east aisle and the west nave with its west aisle to communicate. That the two naves were actually communicating depends on evidence provided largely by the central wall. The central wall ran originally the entire length of the temple. Its relation with other walls shows that it probably [handwritten: almost certainly the west cella's] antedates the projection of the north and south walls to west of it, [handwritten: the west wall of the cella] and the manner of its construction, with the smooth face of the wall toward the west, indicates that it once served as the west wall of a smaller building. When this smaller single temple was transformed into a double one, the west wall became the central wall of the new building. It now extended only as far north as the adjacent aisles. North of this point it would have been brought down to a level low enough to permit communication between the east and west cellas. There is, however, one difficulty. The top of the central wall here is about 0.09m. higher than the paved floor, as preserved, in the northwest corner of the west nave. To surmount this difficulty we must assume that the floor level between the communicating naves was at least that much higher. North of the naves, however, is the raised floor of the communicating aisles. The uppermost course of the central wall runs under this floor. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that if the aisles communicated here uninterrupted by the central wall, so also did the naves. It is clear that the central wall south of the communicating cellas still stood in that the stylobates dividing nave from aisle were not nearly strong enough to support unaided the temple roof.

Handwritten: 1 drawn line: the floor levels