Kourion Complex Miscellaneous

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… systematically. Half of this block receives the stairways of the court; wall of the early building to the northwest corner of the exedra of building C. This wall here is in rubble and, it is visible to level 0.56 m., It is mortared into the north wall of the later building: The west part is a doorway, its threshold level with against its east jamb face. This jamb was cut down to a level + 0.40m, at 0.38m above the threshold, after a rubble revetment destroyed the west wall between it and the exedra occupying the northwest corner of the early building and the jamb making the wall for this latrine? The revetment was found over the top of the wall of the early building ^ & but of this rubble the revetment was found over the pavement to a depth of 0.88m. The corner of the early building was one of the towers that the circular stairway mounted at the west end of the South Building.

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^ The rubble revetment is founded on the fine concrete floor of the early building at level - 0.28m and its present top is at level +0.43m, Its purpose is not understood unless it was to conceal the south face of the west jamb and the doorway way itself in the removal of it in time to a lower step descending up to the court platform of the exedra structure, Happening at the same time, as it did, the revetment here and for the doorway discontinuous trompe as the jamb was cut down, this rubble was pulled in some rubble all this may probably coincided with time of the pendency of a … continues