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Very useful on the question of how, or how much of the statue would have been visible on the ascent to the Acropolis and through the Propylaea, is the analysis and review of the issues by Samantha Martin-McAuliffe and John K. Papadopoulos 2012 (“Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis, and the Agora,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71:332–361, particularly 342–347).