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    "localId": "94496",
    "label": "Dish in the Form of a Shell",
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    "id": "94496",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish in the Form of a Shell",
    "date": "1540–1296 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.814",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2.4 x 9.1 cm (15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18"
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    "accession": "1914.814"
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    "tec": "travertine",
    "tombstone": "Dish in the Form of a Shell, 1540–1296 BCE. Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18. Travertine; overall: 2.4 x 9.1 cm (15/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.814",
    "collection": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "76.14"
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. “Egyptian Stone Vessels in Cleveland.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 327–339.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 335, fig. 26",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159955"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his world.</em> Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. 113, p. 412"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bohač, Ken. “When Is a Stone Just a Stone: Two New Kingdom Vessels in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 2 (1997): 6–15.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 6-7, fig. 1a",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079689"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 270; Mentioned: p. 270"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:01:44.354000",
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