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

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The Southeast Building

One enters the fence gate (Note) opposite the modern guard house which is constructed within the foundation walls of the southeast corner of the South Building (plan fig. 2). The best way, probably, to visit the site is to turn right on entering and walk down to the Southeast Building (plan fig. 2). This building, measuring 38 X 27 m. is constructed around an interior open court with colonnaded porticoes on all four sides. There were four piers at the four corners with engaged half columns crowned by Doric capitals. The excavators found the northwest pier almost intact where it had fallen after an earthquake in the 4th century A.D. This has been set up where it once stood. Free standing columns, composed of unfluted drums, stood between the four piers. Some of these have been set up on the stylobate. The west, south and east porticoes led to the rooms of the building. Part of the east wall of rooms 1,2 and 3 was found in the west portico where it had fallen after the destruction of the building. It has been in part restored with portions of two doorways and two windows. Both windows belong to room 2. These at one time were turned into niches. The statue for the one south of the entrance to this room was found in the debris. A copy has been made in plaster and this stands where the stone original once stood in the niche. It is the statue of Apollo in some obscure aspect, of of some local god or hero, in the act of pelting the foe with stones. He carries the stone he is about to cast in his right hand and he bears a reserve of two in his left. Four additional stones were found in the debris. These, possibly, were donated by those who visited the site in antiquity. There is a pedestal at the far end of the room. Later a stone