A picture of the edifice, as he conceives it to have stood in its original condition, has been drawn by one of its earliest visitants.

"The building," he says,[637] "was constructed of sun-dried bricks, forming four walls, the base of which rested upon a substruction of solid stone-work.

The walls were covered, as are the houses of the Cypriot peasants of to-day, with a stucco which was either white or coloured, and which was impenetrable by rain.

Wooden pillars with stone capitals supported internally a pointed roof, which sloped at a low angle.

It formed thus a sort of terrace, like the roofs that we see in Cyprus at the present day.