Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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the most pleasing and best preserved that we have uncovered, antedates the South Building. This is clear from the orientation and relationship with each other of their respective walls. It is, therefore, at least as early as 102 A.D. A curious feature is the spacing of the columns on the west stylobate. In the north and south porticos the spacing is regular with an intercolumniation of 2.45m. Thus far it is not clear what the intercolumniation was on the east stylobate. If the spacing on the west stylobates was at one time regular, the intercolumniation would have been greater than 2.45m.

Possibly the building stood already before the earthquake of 76/77. If so, it is more than likely that the building [handwritten: was] damaged and that some of the columns fell to the ground. The present arrangement of rooms behind the west portico may well date from the period of re-construction (76-102 A.D) that followed when a respacing of the columns would have been made to comform to a new plan. Supporting evidence for a period of re-construction is provided by the walls dividing rooms 1,2,3 and 4, [handwritten: in] that none of these are bonded into the west wall of the building. The purpose of the spacing was, clearly enough, to avoid having any column opposite the entrance to room 2. This room, accordingly, is the keystone to the new design, and the question immediately suggests itself: Could this room too, like the cella of the temple, have been dedicated to Apollo Caesar?

The Southeast Building stood with a few later minor alterations until destroyed by the earthquakes of the 4th century. From the debris over the west rooms of the bilding came two heads in white marble, belonging probably to the imperial era. (fig. [handwritten: 8]) They may well have belonged to statues that once stood on the pedestal of room 2. They are of very respectable workmanship;