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

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porch on the north side. A large doorway leads into the north portico. Access to the rooms of the building was through the west, south and east porticoes. The east walls of rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4 are in part restored from material found in the immediate vicinity. Room 2 had a window on either side of the doorway. These later were turned into niches. The statue in the one south of the doorway is a copy of the original which was found in it when it still lay on the ground within the fallen wall before restoration. The statue represents a youth, possibly Apollo himself, in the act of casting a stone. At the far end of the room there is a pedestal on which may have stood important dedications to the presiding [handwritten: deity.] Later a continuous stone bench was added along the side walls. Two fine female heads in marble from this room may have belonged to statues on the pedestal.

Room 1 to the south has also a continuous stone bench running round three sides of the room, a popular feature which we shall see again in the South Building. Room 3 originally extended as far as the north wall of the Southeast Building and with rooms 1 and 2 once belonged to an earlier building. This earlier building was constructed, very probably, during the first century A.D. and was destroyed, it is believed, by the earthquake of 76-77 A.D. During the period of re-construction which followed, rooms 1, 2 and 3 were incorporated with some modifications into the enlarged Southeast Building. The stairway leading from the north portico to the portico of the South Building was built probably under the Antonines in the second century. Rooms facing the south and east porticoes are in a poorer state of preservation. Those on the south portico are small and their floors