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

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… event there would have been, almost cetainly, a gabled roof over the center of each exedre. The roof over the platform probably sloped down from the colonnades. It is not certain whether the four corridors between the exedrae were roofed. Possibly alleys would be a better name for them. The north portico was paved. The columns, undoubtedly also in the Doric style, carried a tiled roof which sloped down from the top of the north wall. Some of these have been set up on the restored part of the stylobate opposite exedrae 2 and 3. Remains of early walls, belonging to an earlier period, can be seen in the portico. These appear to belong to the same early building as the room whose remains we already have noted below the floor level of exedra 5 and the west end of the portico. The circular stairway here was constructed over the floor of this early building. It was a large building apparently s mewhat similar to the South Building. It seems almost certain that it was destroyed by earthquake, and probably by the one of 76-77 A.D. which according to allusions in the Sybelline Oracles destroyed in that year the important Cypriot cities of Salamis and Paphos. We suppose that such a disaster was the occasion for the rebuilding program which followed and which terminated possibly in 114 A.D. when, according to a valuable inscription found in the portico, that part of the pavement leading to the Paphos Gate was constructed. This, undoubtedly, refers to the paved square north of the South Building which leads to the West Propylon fronting Street 1 on the west side carries the name of five archons. (plan, fig. 2). The purpose of the South Building is unknown. A bronze lifting ring attached to a marble slab in the marble floor of a house