The tem­ple lies near the summit of moun­tain of Agios Elias at Asea in the Peloponnese Region of Greece and is in ruins with only the stone foundation visible, although one complete capital and a triglyph survive. Other ar­chae­o­log­i­cal ma­te­r­ial which includes pot­tery, roof tiles and mis­cel­la­neous stone ob­jects were recovered in a brief four-week ex­ca­va­tion cam­paign in 1997. Roof tiles of a tem­ple suggest a date of construction from c. 590–560 BC. Some of the pot­tery is lo­cal/​re­gional, with other ex­am­ples orig­i­nat­ing from many parts of south­ern Greece in ad­di­tion to At­tica, in­di­cating this site was not iso­lated, but sustained an active trading network thought the rest of Greece.