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

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erection of the building of 101 A.D. The paved floor of the later building is not extant. This earlier building may have had rooms with a similar plan: a rectangular space with a ⌊ shaped platform. The foundation wall running north-south in the center of exedra 5 would correspond to the east stylobate in the later building. The east wall may be the one which can be seen projecting east of the east wall of exedra 5 of the new building. Some of the blocks appear where they fell, after an earthquake probably, near the south end. When this early building collapsed these blocks were covered by the filling in to bring the east arm of the new platform up to the level of the coping blocks for the new floor (not extant on this side). The west wall has disappeared, but the stone filling against the east face of its foundation wall is still in part extant and can be seen between the west stylobate and the west wall of exedra 5. The south wall is visable where it projects south of the south stylobate. It will be noted that the north wings of the stylobate are founded on the walls of the earlier building. The early floor can be traced along the north face. A restored plan appears in fig. 3.

We may see the remains of an early floor between the west stylobate and the west wall of exedra 5. We have the entire width near the south end but only bits of it along the stylobate's foundation elsewhere. It is clearly later than the early building but earlier than the floor which was at the level of the coping blocks between the column plinths. It corresponds possibly to the early floor in the northwest corner of exedra 3, opposite the west doorway (see above).

The South Building had a tiled roof. The colonnades of the five exedrae may have supported a timber cleastory. In that … continues