Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

Continued from scan 24

… manner of Hellenistic and Roman Doric, is comparatively straight in profile. There is another difference between the capitals from the earlier and later cellas. Those of the west cella have square holes sunk in the echinus and abacus on opposite sides. These holes do not occur in those from the east cella. The evidence of the columns, accordingly, confirms that provided by the central wall: the west cella formed no part of the original design but was a later addition.

The lower courses of the walls were of solid masonry, but, judging from the character of the debris, the upper courses were constructed much in the same manner as those of the South Building. These were faced with irregular stones, and the core between was filled with rough stones and chips to which liquid mortar was added, as the wall grew in height, to bind the whole into a solid mass. All walls were covered with lime plaster, as were also the columns of the interior colonnades.

The superstructure was doubtless mainly of wood. The roof was in terracotta tiles a great quantity of which has been recovered in the debris. A doorway, of which mention has been made, pierced in the north wall of the east cella, is the only one that has been preserved. The main doorways would have been situated in the center of the south wall of the east and west cellas. Not a trace of them, however, is extant. This in brief describes the temple in the later phases of its long history.

At a considerable lower level than the floor levels of the later temple we have the foundation walls of an early building with a different orientation (plan, fig. 2). These may well belong to the classical temple. Of the many coins, lamps, and pottery found in the fill over them nothing thus far has been noted that can be dated later than the first half of the second century B.C.

Handwritten annotations in pencil in margins: "east", "west", "Two", "one", "and west", "Probably for location of the capitals"