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    "localId": "125394",
    "label": "Chain with Pendant Cross",
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    "id": "125394",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chain with Pendant Cross",
    "date": "500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.34",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1947.34"
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    "tec": "gold, glass, pearl, garnet, and sapphire",
    "tombstone": "Chain with Pendant Cross, 500s. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century. Gold, glass, pearl, garnet, and sapphire; overall: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.34",
    "collection": "MED - Byzantine",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner.<em> Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]</em>. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.",
            "page_number": "cat.no.432"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Byzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 7 (1947).",
            "page_number": "p. 172",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141388"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Byzantine Goldsmith Work.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>41, no. 8 (October 1954): 190-192.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 191",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141983"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:28:38.395000",
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