Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

Strat for Propylon and West Building.

Much debris had to be cleared before finding the floors of the floor levels and this consisted mainly of tiles, rough stones indicating that the roof was tiled and the upper course of masonry of rubble. Among the debris who were found many examples of the lime revetement that served the walls. In the propylon porch the debris fell on a floor of beaten earth, a few centimeters below the column base, but no trace of any floor level remain in the court where the debris fell over the rock. It is doubtful, whether the rock served as a floor level for it is too far below the threshold to have been convenient.

In the West Building the floor levels of room 1 and 2 were indicated by some pieces of terracotta piping set up on end by some hand before the destruction of the building and the absense of debris below this level by some broken pottery and fragments of a marble inscription.

Handwritten: Kourion?

The floor was probably of beaten earth both in this and in the other five rooms there room where the strata is complimentary. In the other five rooms there was found under the debris a layer of clay varying in depth from 8 to 22 cm. which can only be explained as being fallen from the upper floor or from the roof. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx As is the practice today in Cypriot rural Architecture it was probably layed over ried mating and rested on wooden beams. The solidely of the masonry in rooms 6 and 7 suggest the probability of an upper floor; and it is possible all the rooms save one and two had an upper floor over them. The absence of fallen clay in these, and the presence of tiles among the debris in all the rooms indicate the roof was tiled and boarding rather than clay and matting was used, and the clay is to be accounted for as fallen from the upper story where this occured It is very likely that rooms 4,5,6 and 7 had paved floors, the … continues