Kourion Complex Trenches

Kourion, tr.3

[handwritten: P132] Top of large amphora. Ribbed coarse ware. w. between handles: 0.30 [handwritten: P133] Shallow bowl with spreading rim Late Roman B;h.: o.047; d.: o.

House no. 2

In fill, 2.4o- 2.6o: Ivory spoon

In fill, 2.6o-2.8o Terracotta fixture with palmette.

House no. 4

On floor: [handwritten: F4] Bronze canelabra; h. o.083; diam.:o.089

In sections A-E we found substantial walls of some large building the nature of which was not revealed by the trench . Two periods of construction are obvious, but their date is uncertain. In sections e-Q is one wall of a large building, in good ashlar masonry, set on a leveling course of small stones. It is probably pre-Roman.

In the disturbed fill were found four fragmentary figurines: [handwritten: F19] Horse and rider; "snow-man" technique [handwritten: F20] Female figure; solid; white slip; red and yellow paint. [handwritten: F21] Horse; "snow-man" technique. [handwritten: F22] Animal with baskets on back; technique as above.

In trench no. 6 we found four pits, one certainly a cistern, and three, of which we investigated two, natural caves adapted for the dumping of refuse. The south cistern was in use from the fifth or sixth century B.C. well into the Hellenistic period; the north