Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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The Autumn season closed on the 23rd of December. We resumed work again, however, on the 16th of March and continued to clear a very large building, part of which had been excavated at the close of the previous Autumn. By the second week in April we had laid bare almost the entire structure. It measured 60 metres long by 18 metres wide. This we named the South Building. (Plan, Fig. 7). It consists of five large rooms of which at least three had interior colonnades. Between each of the rooms are long narrow corridors running the whole width of the building. Two of the rooms have floors paved in stone.(Fig. 12). Columns were found in three of the rooms lying where they fell after the earthquake which probably destroyed the building. (Fig. 13). At the close of the season, we set up two columns in one room, and one in another on their original bases in situ. (Figs. 14 & 15). As two of these columns were adjacent it was easy to determine the columniation. This was found to give each room 12 columns, six on the east, and six on the west side. The stylobates on which the columns stand are elevated about 80 centimetres above the central floors between them. The floors between the stylobates and the walls of the rooms are level with the stylobates. Each room has one main and two smaller doors to either side of the central one. The thresholds of almost all of these doors are well preserved. (Fig. 16). They lead into a Stoa, or long portico, which runs the entire length of the building on the north. Many

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