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{
    "localId": "120633",
    "label": "Seated Figure",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "120633",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Seated Figure",
    "description": "Like their contemporaries, the Olmec made figurines but of greenstone rather than clay. This one, whose identity and use are mysterious, holds objects that may address nature's fertility: on the right, perhaps a cut conch shell that refers to water, and on the left, what may be a plant or a bundle of green feathers that symbolizes new vegetation.",
    "date": "c. 900–300 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.390",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60758313"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jade"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.390/1941.390_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.390/1941.390_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.390/1941.390_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 11 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Mesoamerica, Mexico, Olmec"
    ],
    "accession": "1941.39"
}

{
    "tec": "albitite",
    "tombstone": "Seated Figure, c. 900–300 BCE. Mesoamerica, Mexico, Olmec. Albitite; overall: 11 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1941.390",
    "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Jade Figurine in the Olmec Style.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>29, no. 6 (June 1942): 100.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 100",
            "url": "jstor.org/stable/25140995"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Pre-Columbian Jade and Hard Stone.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>36, no. 4 (April 1949): 53-55.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 53",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141547"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 375",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n70"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 290",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n314"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 290",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n314"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 392",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n412"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 6",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n21"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.390",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:13:32.010000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.390/1941.390_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 120633,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "med": "albitite",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.390/1941.390_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d9269f1ea7c4b485"
}