DESCRIPTION:

In front of the entrance leading to the official reception area or the official dining room (triclinium), a preserved inscription mentions the founder of the complex, Eustolios. Although the inscription is fragmentary, it preserves the name of Eustolios, who built the baths. The same inscription also mentions Apollo (Phoebus), the previous patron of Kourion.

[ΚΟΥΡΙΕΑΣ] ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΙΘΕΝ Ε[Ν] Ο[ΛΒΩ]Ι ΠΑΝΤΙ ΠΕΛΟ[Ν]ΤΑΣ
[ΝΥΝ ΕΝ ΔΥΗΙ ΙΔ]ΩΝ ΕΚ ΠΟΔΟΣ ΕΥΣΤΟΛΙΟΣ
[ΟΥ ΠΑΤΕΡΩΝ ΧΩ]ΡΗΣ ΕΠΕΛΗΣΑΤΟ, ΑΛΛ’ ΑΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ
[ΕΜΝΗΣΘΗ ΦΙΛΙ]ΩΣ, ΛΟΥΤΡΑ ΧΑΡΙΣΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ·
[ΑΥΤΟΣ ΔΗ ΤΟΤΕ] ΔΙΖΕΤΟ ΚΟΥΡΙΟΝ, ΩΣ ΠΟΤΕ ΦΟΙΒΟΣ,
[ΓΑΙΗΝ ΔΕ Β]ΡΥΧ[Ι]ΗΝ ΘΗΚΕΝ ΥΠΗΝΕΜΙΗΝ

The citizens of Kourion, who once had considerable wealth,
were now in abject misery. When Eustolios saw this
he did not forget his land, but naturally
remembered her with love, presenting the city with baths.
He indeed took care of Kourion, as Phoebus had once done,
by restoring calmness in the earthquake-struck land.

(Proposed restoration of the inscription by Andreas I. Voskos 1997)