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- ↑ "Altar of Zeus Agoraios" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , URL accessed on June 3, 2008.
- ↑ Dave Webb. "The Altar of Zeus Agoraios". Archived from the original on 2009-10-24.
- ↑ Shear 1981 p. 361
