Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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… covered as were the columns with a revetement of lime plaster; the softness of the stone made thus essential.

The doorway leading from the porch to the court below was a large one the threshold block measuring 2.10 m. in length. It has a pivot hole at each end for the double folding doors that opened into the court; these occur at the inner corner of the rebate cut in the block to receive the doors when closed. Stone jambs similarly cut to receive the doors, framed the pivots holes in alternating course of orthostates and transverse tie blocks. The south Building affords many samples this type of doorway (Fig. ) A step was inserted behind the doors at a later period and the floor of the porch was raised. The two bases for columns belong to this later period.

West Building.

The W. Building (Plan F. ) consists of seven rooms, 3 on the south and four on the north side. It opens on to the propylon on the south side through door leading from Room 1. and 3 (fig. ) and flanks Temple A stairway on the east. A door may have led from R. 1 on to the stairway.

All the walls were found on the rock. The better ones are made up at least in their courses of large ashlars over a meter in length and 0.50 m. in height as in the north and south walls of R. 1 and 2 and the wall dividing R.2 and 6 from R.3 and 5. Their thickness is on the average a little over 50 cm. and they are preserved to a height ranging from 0.50 m. to go in the south wall and from 100 to 130 cm. in the north over the floors. The slope of the hill runs north south and this accounts for the better preservation of the north wall. It is possible that the walls in the unexcavated area to the north of this wall form a part of the W. Building. A trial pit sunk here undicates that if this is so, that part of the building … continues