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

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… north stylobate immediately to the east of the basin was doubtless for the led pipe which fed the basin. The Southeast Building is earlier than the South Building immediately to the west of it. With the possible exception of rooms 1, 2 and 3 it is very probably later than the recorded earthquake of 76-77 A.D, which appears to have destroyed the greater part of the sanctuary. We shall come to this later. Both the Southeast Building and the Apollo Baths opposite are just without the main precinct wall. Both may be, therefore, secular buildings. The Southeast Building resembles in many respects a market place, or guild hall. The small rooms facing the south and east porticos have every appearance of being store rooms or shops. If they were so it would bear out this supposition. Rooms 1 and 2 may have been chapels in the form of exedrae dedicated to locally popular divinities.

The South Building.

One can enter the South Building by climbing the stairway at the west end of the north portico. This stairway passed under the north porch passing over the great threshold block in the vicinity. The stairway leads up to the north portico of the South Building. Or one can leave the Southeast Building through an arch. The voussoirs of this arch are stored in the immediate north wall of the building. The north porch faces the main approach to the sanctuary. This was at one time paved and steps brought one up to the large square north of the South Building. Bits of the stepped pavement are still extant north of the Southeast Building.

The South Building consists of five rooms identical in size and plan, devided by four long narrow corridors. Access to all five rooms was through the north portico. This was supported by