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Handwritten: KOURION
[handwritten: CURIUM] EXCAVATIONS : THE STADIUM Brief Report on the Excavation
Halfway between the acropolis of [handwritten: Kourion] and the great sanctuary of Apollo Hylates lie the ruins of the Stadium. To it the expedition turned its attention in the Spring of 1939, when the writer commenced trial excavations under the supervision of the Director, Dr. B. H. Hill. After a long interruption further work was done this year, and a publication of our conclusions is in preparation. There were in all three [handwritten: "]campaigns"[handwritten: "], each with a specific purpose; a summary of them follows.
The 1939 Campaign: Our purpose in this initial campaign was (a) to explore the stratification, and thus the history, of the site and the building, and (b) to clear key areas so that an accurate ground-plan might be drawn. To the first end, a trench diagonally across the walls, seating-sections, and track was dug with great care, stratum by stratum, down to bedrock. Trials were also made by the euthynteria, and in small sections in the tramped fill of the floor where preserved. For purposes of surveying and drawing, the eastern (open) end, the north and south gates, and the entire sphendone (the semicircular west end) were laid bare.
A detailed plan of the stadium thus excavated was prepared by the staff architect, Mr. J. S. Last, in 1946.
Last [handwritten: Spring] a second, brief, campaign had as its purpose the search for the starting and finishing lines of the foot-race; bedrock at both ends was explored and partly cleared.
Neither of these campaigns produced evidence sufficient to permit a plausible reconstruction of the seating-sections. For this we decided to search last [handwritten: Autumn]; we also wished, in concluding our work, to improve the appearance of the site and display it to its best advantage. We therefore
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