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

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columns stood. The stairway leading to the west arm of the platform in exedra 3, if such existed, is not extant. There is here, however, the remains of an earlier floor in lime concrete, and a threshold block a step high immdiately opposite the west doorway. The 5th column from the door on the west stylobate belongs where it now stands. It was found fallen in the center of the room. The 1st column came from exedra 4 and stood once, probably, on the east stylobate of this exedra at the north end. Drums belonging to other columns have been placed at the approximate points on the stylobates where columns once stood. Some of these, as those near the southwest corner, belonged higher up in the column. Holes will be noticed on the north and south face in the column. Holes will be noticed on the north and south face of column 4 (counting from the north), and on the south face of column 1 of the west stylobate, These were for bars which carried some kind of temporary material to screen off, as occasion demanded, the platform from the center of the room. The north arm of the platform in exedra 3 and the south ends of the east and west arms are restored in re-enforced concrete at the approximate level of the ancient floor. This restoration serves now also as a roof for a store room below, built whithin the foundation of the ancient building. One can enter the store room through a door in the south wall. The southeast corner of exedra 1 has been restored in a similar way. The ancient floor of the platform was in lime concrete. Traces of this appear on some of the coping blocks.

In exedra 5, the excavators found the plinths for columns 1 and 2 (those nearest the entrance) on the west stylobate in situ as well as the coping blocks between the two plinths. These served as a basis for the restoration of exedra 3. In exedra 5 we see interesting remains of a building which stood before the