This confirmed references in the ancient literary sources: Pausanias mentions that Zoster was the location of the most important sanctuary of the deme of Aixōnídes Halaí (Greek: Αἰξωνίδες Ἁλαί),[2] in other words, the Saltfields of Aixōnē.

[1] The temple sits on the middle tongue of a three-tongued promontory which was once famously known in antiquity as Cape Zoster.

[3] Herodotus writes that, after the battle of Salamis, the Persians mistook the rocks of the headland for Greek ships.

[4] Pausanias believed that in this location Leto, who was pregnant by Zeus, loosened her gilt belt, or zoster, as she was being chased by an angry Hera.

[1] There is an attendant building of the same period, later enlarged, discovered in 1936 and comprising the priest's house or a pilgrim's hostel.