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

From 00.00 m. to 0.80 m. west of the northeast corner of the north wall is founded on the remains of the foundation of portico (rubble) an earlier wall which reaches down to bedrock at level -2.40 m. The extant top of the early foundation here is at level -0.66 m. [handwritten: of the north wall] The top of the foundation supports the stone thresholds and a course of worked blocks between them. The approximate height of both is a shade over 0.25 m. and their average width of 0.53 m. makes up the thickness of the wall at this level. Immediately to the east of the west threshold block of exedra 3 there is a gap of 1.04 m. which is filled in with rubble. The softness of the calcareous sandstone made perfect jointing impossible, and where pockets occur in the intertices these are filled with chips and small stones. The top of the threshold block of room 4 is the datum line for all levels, and is within a few centimeters at the same level as the other thresholds in the wall. Not much of the second course remains intact; a little just east of the west door of exedra 5; almost all between the central and east doors of the same room; almost all between the west and central door of exedra 3 and finally two large blocks taking up most of the lineal distance between the east of exedra 2 and the west door of exedra 1. This course, like the first, appears to have consisted largely of worked blocks, but only three of those extant take up the entire width of the wall. Unlike those of the first course they are unequal in height, which varies between 0.19 m. and 0.50 m. What remained of the rest of the wall was found fallen, although largely still intact, in the portico (film 41; fig. 8). During the restoration of this wall it was possible to learn just how it was constructed. Rough stones, varying from fist to foot in size, with an occasional somewhat larger worked block, composed the two faces of the wall. The backing between the two faces

Handwritten: Block no. course after the first