Kourion Complex Trenches

Kourion, trench no. 10 5

state of preservation until quite recently, when many columns and kiln blocks from the stylobate were removed for sale. We found Three columns partially preserved, and were able, by means of pits sunk in the line of the collonade, to trace it over a length of 20 meters. The columns were of sandstone, unfluted, and weithout separate bases.

Special finds were: [handwritten: L 10, 11] Complete lamp, type 2/; another, do. Two bronze coins, one of Valentinianus [handwritten: St 4] A piece of a rudely carved marble slab [handwritten: Ins 2] A small piece of an inscription. The letters EIMI

Trench no. 11 revealed no monumental remains, and reached bed-rock at a depth of [handwritten: 0.80]. There were no finds.

Trench no. 12 was planned to include the crest of the hill, where we expected to find a section of the city wall, and to cross a small neck of land separating the Paphos road from the slope toward the sea. Our hopes were realized, and we found the wall, 1.20 thick, built of large rough-hewn stones above, of smaller below. It was rebuilt many times at different periods, but dates in its lower courses from the early geometric period. Inside the wall is a deep cutting in the bedrock, probably designed as a water channel.

At the south end of the trench we found three tombs, two opening on to the same dromos, of early Hellenistic date. The were all opened and plundered in antiquity, and two of them, connected by piercing a hole in the thin rock separating them, were used for other, nonsepulchral purposes. Into these two were built later walls, to prevent them from collapsing with the weight of another house which was built over them.