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    "localId": "108840",
    "label": "Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I)",
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    "id": "108840",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I)",
    "description": "Along with two large sets of eyes on its exterior, this drinking vessel also features other figures: a winged female, probably Iris, between each pair of eyes, and pairs of satyrs flanking them; a winged dolphin beneath each handle; and a frontal Gorgoneion, or face of Medusa, baring her teeth and tongue within the tondo. Although the eyes and Gorgoneion may serve to ward off evil, they also make for fluid identities while drinking, inviting drinkers to enter the mythical realm. For when tilting such cups to imbibe, drinkers confront monstrous beings while simultaneously masking their faces from others.",
    "date": "c. 520–510 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.514",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60742001"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.514/1926.514_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Attic"
    ],
    "accession": "1926.514"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I), c. 520–510 BCE. Greek, Attic. Ceramic; diameter: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1926.514",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "The eye cup takes its name from the large eyes on its exterior.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 331757",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/99A20F3C-7343-4A5C-B244-65AAB443ED89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. </em>Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.",
            "page_number": "p. 630, no. 3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 15, Plates 22, I&3, and 20,3",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={99A20F3C-7343-4A5C-B244-65AAB443ED89}&startRef="
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cooney, John D. “Way Stations on the Primrose Path.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 7 (1974): 240–46.",
            "page_number": "Ill. Fig. 3.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152536"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² &amp; Paralipomena. </em>Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.",
            "page_number": "p. 145"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.514",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:49:12.285000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.514/1926.514_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 108840,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
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    "image_url": null
}

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