Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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… by earthquakes of the 4th century A.D. when the site was abandoned never to be occupied again.

No attempt here will be made to discuss in any detail the new Southeast Building which has not yet been cleared. Enough debris has been removed, however, to reveal its general plan. (fig. ). It is built

It is a large building measuring 29.90 x 27.15 m. It is built around an interior unroofed court with a colonnaded paved portico on all four sides. Stone piers with engaged half columns facing the stylobate stood at the four corners. One complete example has been preserved. Elsewhere there were free columns composed of unfluted drums with diminution but without entasis. Like the engaged columns they presumably carried Doric capitals. These engaged capitals had two annuli at the base of the echinus which was somewhat more curved than that of the temple capitals. (fig. ). The height of the columns were only 5.4 lower diameters.

One entered the building through a large doorway pierced in the north wall of the north portico. At the west end of this portico a stairway led to the portico of the South Building. The west portico, south of this stairway, gave access to four rooms.The east wall of these rooms with its large stone door jambs and window frames was found fallen, but for the most part intact, over the paved floor of the portico. It is hoped that eventually we shall be able to reconstruct this wall over its original foundation.

Room 2 has a particulary fine doorway with large stone jambs surmounted by an elaborate jamb capital (fig. ). Against the west wall of the room stands a pedestal with a molded orthostate. [handwritten: Very possibly] this room housed some important dedications to Apollo.

Other rooms faced the south and east porticos but an understanding of the plan here will have to await further excavation.

The new building, perhaps in its architectural detail the