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

II. The present state of the building.

1. Foundations and walls.

The foundation of the [handwritten: portico] north wall consists of rubble with stones averaging from fist to foot in size. Wherever cleared it reaches down to bedrock (plan X, fig.4; sections 1,2 & 3, figs. 5,6 &7). This at 12.50 m. east of the northwest corner is at level -0.67 m; at 21.40 m. west it is at -1.39 m; at 47.00 m. west it is at -1.88 m, and at the northeast corner it attains a depth of -2.40 m. (Foot note 1). The thickness of the foundation at the lower levels averages approximately 1.45 m, but toward the top [handwritten: is not] it does not average more than about 0.76 m. There is no regular face on either side and at the lower level it looks much as if it had been constructed in a footing trench, although no traces of such have been observed. From 15.15 m. to 15.70 m. east of the northwest corner the north wall crosses the east wall of an earlier [handwritten: of the portico] structures.

From 10.90 m. to 11.68 m. west of the north wall corner the north wall rests directly on the floor at level of -0.36 m. between two benches. This floor has a marked gradient to the south and leads to a drain pipe at level of -0.46 m. From 4.00 m. to 4.82 m. west, however, the floor between the two benches here was [handwritten: cut] at a level of -0.46 m. in order to lay the foundation of the north wall.

From this wall to the west wall of the South Building it rests on the rubble remains of what appears to have been a group of three benches or platforms. There is a floor in lime concrete to north and south and also between these benches. The floor is contiguous with bits of wall plaster, also in lime, some of which is still extant on the side of the benches from the level of the floor to a few centimeters above it.