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Theatre, Racing and Athletic Installations in Caesarea /


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Author(s): and Y. Porat
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Qadmoniot: A Journal for the Antiquities of Eretz-Israel and Bible Lands /
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Vol. No. 125 / 2003), pp. 25-42 ("
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