Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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the last being marked by a flight of eleven well-preserved steps leading up from a street that is paved for a good part of its length. This street is 6.50 metres wide and has been excavated for 30 metres (Fig. 10). The street is lined on both sides by walls of an average preserved height of five feet and running for some distance south beyond the area that has been excavated. Directly in front of the flight of eleven steps of the temple, on the pavement of the street, and very likely in its original place, stands the ancient Roman altar.

At the close of the Autumn season, we uncovered, just east of the street, about 15 metres south of the temple, an Archaic Altar belonging probably to the middle of the 6th Century B.C. (Fig. 11). Traces of the encircling wall, enclosing an area of about 13 metres in diameter, told us that it had been an important one. Within the enclosure we found many ex-voto terracotta figurines. In the northern section of the enclosure was a slab of stone upon which once were fixed the terracotta horses and chariots of which now only the legs of the horses remain standing upright on the slab. Hound about these were found the greater number of figurines, many of which are in a good state of preservation. Among them was a long-robed priest, about ten inches high, with his head lying just where it had been broken off from the body; also a number of warriors in full armour; squat figures of men in long robes playing the lyre; Apollos, centaurs, and many animals.