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Modern Description: The site is unsignposted, and the paths are overgrown with thorny scrub. Easiest access is from the dirt road running EW north of the sanctuary. Walk south from the road through along the W edge of the olive grove (starting ca. 300 m NW of the temple). A gap in the brush leads to a trail running east along a terrace. From the E end of the terrace a goat path ascends to the temple.
The sanctuary extends over two terraces. In the upper terrace towards the south we have the temple, and on the lower terrace towards the north was the heroon and the ‘Way of Tripods’. The structure is an oblong peripteral temple, with a single internal colonnade and a W-NW to E-SE orientation. A large, square altar stood to the east of the temple. It dates to the late 4th cent. B.C. and it probably replaced an earlier Archaic temple of the early 6th cent. B.C.. Two successive altars have been unearthed at the lower terrace, together with the remains of successive Archaic buildings, one of which has been identified as the Heroon of Ptoios. A ‘sacred way of tripods’ led off from this terrace; it was a wide, paved street leading to Acraephnium, flanked by large bronze tripods measuring 2-2.5m in height. The tripods, official votive offerings of Acraephnium, date from the mid-6th cent. to the mid-5th cent. BC. (boeotia.ehw.gr)

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