Bibliogr. p. [165]-175. Notes bibliogr.

A brief four-week ex­ca­va­tion cam­paign in 1997 at the tem­ple on top of the moun­tain of Agios Elias at Asea pro­duced abun­dant ar­chae­o­log­i­cal ma­te­r­ial which partly is pre­sented in this study, along with a strati­graphic re­port of part of the ex­ca­vated area. The pot­tery, minia­ture ves­sels, mis­cel­la­neous ter­ra­cotta finds, roof tiles, fau­nal and hu­man bones, glass, coins, sculp­ture and mis­cel­la­neous stone ob­jects are in­cluded in the pre­sent work. The first fo­cus of ac­tiv­i­ties at the site took place around c. 720–690 BC (Early Pro­to­corinthian). No ar­chi­tec­ture was found in con­nec­tion with this pe­riod. How­ever, roof tiles of a tem­ple and some aux­il­iary build­ings from c. 590–560 BC (Mid­dle Corinthian–Late Corinthian I) are ac­com­pa­nied by a large amount of pot­tery which point at a sec­ond floruit of the site dur­ing this pe­riod. Some of the pot­tery is lo­cal/​re­gional, with other ex­am­ples orig­i­nat­ing from many parts of south­ern Greece in ad­di­tion to At­tica and pos­si­bly East Greece as well. Dur­ing the 14th cen­tury AD a vil­lage, named Kan­dreva, and church ex­isted where the an­cient tem­ple once stood, as in­di­cated by nu­mer­ous buri­als, pot­tery finds, and coins. Then, as dur­ing an­cient times, the pres­ence of ex­otic pot­tery in­di­cates that, al­though seem­ingly "hid­den" in the Ar­ca­dian moun­tains, this site was far from iso­lated. (4ème de couverture)