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This may well have been one of those seen by Ross, although his own statement is not a priori evidence of the fact. According to the foreman, Christo Gregoriou, of the Curium Expedition of the University Museum, Philadelphia, which excavated the Theatre in 1934, the column in the orchestra was actually about one-third above ground, but hidden by underbrush at the time of the excavation (This corresponds with the impression of Dr. Hill director of the Expedition, although no official entry is found in field notebooks). Another fragment of a considerably smaller column lies now in open ground about one hundred yards south of the Basilica, and has presumably always been visible. Moreover, this is at a considerable distance out of the area indicated by Ross.
Ross's statement would suggest that he saw more than the two fragments now on the bluff of Kourion - if indeed he did see these two. What then has become
To Fortunately it is possible to point to various fragments in the region of Episkopi for Kourion will by now which matter of quite be seen [illegible] can readily supposed that these fragments were carried off by villagers some time after the visit of Ross & before our excavation of the Theatre. One fragment (Fig. one) is in the very Courtyard of the Curium House, former residence of George H. McFadden and headquarters of the Curium Expedition. This piece lay there when the site of Curium House was still an open field. The foreman Gregoriou elicited the tradition, from a Turkish patriarch in the village that it was brought there about 60 years ago from the Theatre. This tradition gains greatly in credence from the fact that a good-sized frag. is actually in use as an a porch supporting the porch of a Turkish house in the village (Fig. 2), Finally, there is a small frag [Fig 3] in the southwest corner of the church of Ayios Ermoyenis. This church is on the coastal plain below the acropolis of Kourion, but quite near it. The description and dimensions of all these pieces tally very closely with thos
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