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Since 2019, new excavations have been taking place at the Comitium and Corinthian Doric temple in Paestum by the universities of Bochum and Bonn. During the investigation of the temple's foundations, not only were two phases identified, but the quality of the stones in the lowest layer of the temple differed significantly from the other blocks in the foundation. Not only were they made of high-quality, smoothly polished limestone, but they were also slightly recessed into the bedrock. At least three of these blocks show a carefully smoothed profile that is significantly smaller than the profiles of the known temple. Another block has an unusually sloping hole, and two other blocks could have once been orthostats. Overall, they can certainly be interpreted as the remains of an older building. Based on the moulding, they probably originate from a temple or altar. In this respect, when the Corinthian-Doric temple was built, an older sacral architecture was probably demolished and ritually buried here in the lowest part of the foundation. The lecture will present these objects and then draw comparisons with similar situations in Paestum and other places.