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    "localId": "111426",
    "label": "Drachm: Forepart of Lion (obverse); Head of Aphrodite (reverse)",
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    "id": "111426",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Drachm: Forepart of Lion (obverse); Head of Aphrodite (reverse)",
    "description": "The lion, king of the beasts and an animal associated with regal and heroic power, featured prominently on the coinage of many ancient Greek city-states. Artists placed the lion in a variety of poses, sometimes including the whole body, at other times the foreparts or just the head. Although it may once have roamed nearby, for many Greeks the lion was a monster nearly as exotic as the Chimaera, of which it formed a part, together with a goat head and snake-headed tail.",
    "date": "465–449 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.914",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Coins"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.914/1929.914_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, minted at Knidos (Karia)"
    ],
    "accession": "1929.914"
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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Drachm: Forepart of Lion (obverse); Head of Aphrodite (reverse), 465–449 BCE. Greek, minted at Knidos (Karia). Silver; diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1929.914",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "Although produced in the Classical period, this profile head of Aphrodite retains an Archaic look.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cahn, Herbert A. <em>Knidos: die Münzen des sechsten und des fünften Jahrhunderts v. Chr. </em>Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1970.",
            "page_number": "No. 72, pp. 45-6, & 226, Tafel 16"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.914",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:53:55.098000",
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    "sourceId": 111426,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
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