D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) XIV 1950De C. Fales

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Note also that the traces of stones left in plaster which levelled out base for wall show that they were stones with straight sides.

Note the south wall of room Alpha is of the period of the palace and cuts the soil of the earlier bath. The south wall of room alpha south part of room alpha is the of the earlier bath is the middle E-W wall of Room Beta. In the earlier bath, there would in the line of the Greek-lettered rooms be two comparatively narrow rooms Alpha & Eta, two wide rooms Beta and Zeta and two rooms in between of somewhat the same size but smaller delta and gamma.

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The west wall of green-lettered rooms must have been of second period. That every stone was removed shows that the stones were stones with at least two good faces otherwise why go to trouble to take all poor the stones when there were so many good stones around. In the period of the palace there were no good the walls were built of odd stones not well cut stones. The walls across between two walls may have been built with when soil was thrown in with them. The north wall of south part of room Alpha was the end wall of the second period built where it was to take into account the stairtower of theater. When the men who took these stones arrived at end wall which forms part of ovular end, they removed stones till they arrived at east wall of green lettered rooms. Note that although south wall of Christian mosaic rests in part on no foundation, its west south boundary is determined by wall of ovular and its east by cistern. under flag stones. Note it bulges a little in middle.