Kourion Complex (Apollo) post 1945 (1 of 2)

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to Apollo Hylates". The inscription very probably stood in the south wall over the doorway.

The Baths.

At the foot of the stairway we see the terracotta pipe which brought water from Cistern 2 to the Baths. If we trace this pipe line it will bring us to the northwest corner of the building. The stone box which connected the horizontal with the vertical section of pipe to bring the water to the desired height to enter the building is still in situ near the wall.

The only way to enter the Baths (fig. 2) was from the south where the building faced the main entrance to the sanctuary opposite the Southeast Building. The Baths are conveniently described in a recent publication:

The building faces south. One entered through a narrow vestibule (room 1) into a long hall (room 2) paved in mosaic. Immediately to the left is a small chamber (room 3), probably a dressing room; and opposite, two more rooms (room 4, possibly an attendant's room, and room 5, probably another dressing room). The bather would proceed, as we imagine, to one of the dressing rooms and then pass down the hall to a large water basin. He stepped down into this basin and stood on its bright colored mosaic floor probably at least waist deep in cold water; for this was the unheated part of the establishment known as the frigidarium. Or he might pass by the large basin and enter room 6 and have a cold bath there in a small built-in basin also with a mosaic floor. Having completed his cold bath, he would enter room 7, the tepidarium, as the Romans called it. The people of his day were of the opinion that sudden changes in temperature were to be avoided. So, before proceeding from the unheated rooms into that part of the establishment which was heated, the bather passed through a tepid room where he remained for what was considered a suitable interval of time. This room was heated by having hot air pass under a section of the mosaic floor. He then passed into the first hot room (room 8), known as the sudatorium. This room had its marble floor and walls heated sufficiently to allow the bather to perspire freely before going on into the last room (room 9), the caldarium, as it was called. This last room, as will