Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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The stylobate wall was constructed in the following way. A trench was dug, usually not so deep as bedrock, and then filled with very rough unworked stones of varying size and shape. On this foundation were laid two to five courses of worked blocks. Only two courses, a course of plinths over a course of moulded orthostates, were visible above nave floors. The columns shafts stood directly on the course of plinths. The central wall, where it has been examined, on the other hand, is throughout of solid masonry, and its foundation reaches down to bedrock. Up to the level of the nave floor it is smooth on the west face, but on the east side the stretchers in the course of headers and stretchers, immediately below the level of the nave floors, project well in front of the east face of the wall. It is clear, therefore, that when the wall was constructed this course was visable on the west side but not so on the east where it was concealed beneath the floors of the earlier temple.

Before the building was enlarged, the floor of the east nave extended with its two aisles the entire length of the building terminating at the north wall. Here a sector of the early floor has been found. There is a doorway in the center of its north wall. The threshold block is at about the right level to have been convenient. At some time later the floor was raised, and a new threshold block, somewhat smaller, was placed over the earlier one to accomodate the new floor level. This later floor was that of the communicating aisles of the enlarged double temple.

The columns that divided nave from aisle were composed of unfluted drums with diminution but without entasis. The Doric capitals found in the debris of the east nave vary somewhat in style from those of the west nave which belong to a later style of Doric. Those of the east nave have their annuli on the shaft of the column; those of the west, on the echinus. The echinus of both, in the

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Handwritten marginalia: Capitals of the north wall of the east nave. ? Threshold block has not been found.

Handwritten: there was a similar doorway in the north wall of the east nave