[2] The temple of the goddess stood, at a little distance from the town, on the Triton River, a small stream flowing into Lake Copais.
[3] The town was by a hill which Strabo calls Mount Tilphossium (named for Telphousa, the spring visited by the god Apollo).
Strabo also records that the tomb of the seer Teiresias, and the temple of Tilphossian Apollo, were located just outside Alalcomenae.
[4] Ancient sources preserve three accounts of the origin of the town's name: In view of the cult of Athena there, presumably local myth in Alalcomenae followed the first of these theories.
Beyond the modern village of Solinari (Solinarion), the site of Alalcomenae,[7][8] are some polygonal foundations, apparently those of a single building, which are probably remains of the peribolus of the temple.