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

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passed through the hollow walls and then on out of the building through flues in the upper part of the walls. In room 7, where there was no hollow panelling, the air passed out through flues originating at the level of the hypocaust ceiling.

The walls of the building have not been preserved to a sufficient height to show how the building was lighted. The windows would have been high and had probably panes of glass to keep the cold out. We may have fragments of these in some flat pieces of glass from the debris. There was a tiled roof.

Judging from the type of architectural moulding, the building belongs to a later period than the South or Southeast Buildings. This is further borne out by the pipe line which is made up of a comparatively late type of terracotta pipe. It was laid, probably, not earlier than the end of the second century A.D.

The building appears to have been damaged by an earthquake in the 4th century, probably the recorded one of 332 A.D. It was this earthquake, probably, that destroyed the sanctuary as a whole. By this time with the rising tide of Christianity which had become the faith of the Emperor Constantine himself, it was doubtless not possible to find the necessary funds to rebuild Apollo's ancient precinct. It would appear that the trustees of the sanctuary sold out to a contractor or to a number of private people who rebuilt certain parts of the site for their own occupation or use. For example, the occupant of room 4 of the Southeast Building kept an animal there. We can still see the manger. Later, something happened to the animal, or he sold it, and he used the manger as a place to store terracotta pipes which he had taken from some dismantled pipe line. The occupant of room 3 next door stored roof tiles which he sold possibly to the people in the country round about. The occupant of the Baths turned the