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

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be seen from the plan, had two bays, one in the south wall, and another at the west end. Judging from examples elsewhere, there would have been built-in basins here occupying the entire space of the two bays. These would have been filled with hot water. After a hot bath the bather would return by the same way he came, remaining for a suitable interval in the tepidarium, the establishment before passing into the unheated part of the dressing room. to his dressing room. The bath establishment, as we have said, had central heating. A fire was kindled near the east end of the narrow passage leading from room 10 to the chamber under room 9 (fig. 3). The floor of this room, only a part of which has been cleared, was probably rock-hewn; the walls are lined with fire bricks; and the ceiling is composed of terracotta tiles. Both bricks and tiles come from a local factory. The heated air passed from the passage to the chamber under room 9. The purpose of this chamber was to distribute the hot air to heat the rooms above. Our bath has Such chambers were known as hypocausts. Their floors, in a fine state of three (fig. 3). Their floors, in a fine state of preservation, are composed of terracotta tiles measuring 0.62 m. square. The hypocaust walls are lined with similar tiles. Piers, made up of bricks protected with lime mortar, supported the ceilings. The hot air, and with it the smoke, would pass from hypocaust to hypocaust through flues in the walls. In rooms 9 and 8 the hot air and smoke passed through the hollow walls and then on out of the building through flues in the upper part of the walls. In room 7, where there was no hollow panelling, the air passed out through flues originating at the level of the hypocaust ceiling.

The walls of the building have not been preserved to a sufficient height to show how the building was lighted. The windows would have been high and probably had panes of glass to keep the cold out. We may have fragments of these in some flat pieces of glass from the debris. There was a tiled roof.

Judging from the type of architectural molding, the building belongs to a later period than the South or Southeast Buildings. This is further borne out by the pipe line which is made up of a comparatively late type of terracotta pipe. It was laid, probably, not earlier than the end of the second century A.D. The building appears to have been damaged by earthquakes in the 4th century, the first being probably the recorded one of 332 A.D.