Much of the superstructure of the Sanctuary I and its entire southeastern part were destroyed in medieval times. The plan and elevation cannot be reconstructed in detail, but enough survives to show that the Late Bronze Age cult building consisted of two elements: an open Temenos (sacred enclosure) and a covered Hall. (...) The architecture of the Paphian temple represented the Near Eastern type of court sanctuary common in the Eastern Mediterranean. A large open enclosure housing altars, votive offerings and other religious monuments was combined with a fairly small, covered holy-of-holies. This type of sanctuary occurs — together with the typical horns of consecration, stepped capitals, and fine ashlar masonry — on other contemporary Cypriot sites such as Kition. Palaipaphos is, however, remarkable amongst the Late Cypriot sanctuaries for two of its architectural elements: the truly monumental Temenos wall of megalithic limestone blocks and the equally monumental pillared Hall adjoining it. The architectural parallells serve to date the Paphian Sanctuary towards the end of the Late Bronze Age, around 1200 BC. The question whether the construction of this monumental sanctuary was possibly connected with the coming of the first Greeks to Palaipaphos remains open to debate, as both events can be dated only within a fairly wide margin.