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Study cites ruins in Byzantine state (10)

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I believe the answer is:

scrutinise

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'study' is the definition.
('study'->'scrutinize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'cites ruins in byzantine state' is the wordplay.
'cites ruins' can be anagrammed to 'SCRUTINISE'.
But, I'm unsure how this is indicated.

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(Other definitions for scrutinise that I've seen before include "Carefully examine" , "Examine closely - runs cities (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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