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    "localId": "126739",
    "label": "Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "126739",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars",
    "description": "The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and non-regardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground. Framing the octagon is a Kufic inscription repeated in orthograde and retrograde around the central design.",
    "date": "before 1949",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.165.a",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79906319"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.165.a/1949.165.a_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)"
    ],
    "accession": "1949.165.a"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars, before 1949. Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1949.165.a",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inni la-'a'lamu wal-layl janan anna al-jannah fi arja' difafihi",
            "inscription_translation": "I know full well that even though night is darkness, Paradise lies on its outer edges.",
            "inscription_remark": "The Kufic inscription is repeated in orthograde and retrograde framing the octagon."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Schmidt, Heinrich Jakob. <em>Alte Seidenstoffe; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber</em>. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &amp; Biermann, 1958.",
            "page_number": "p. 117, fig. 83"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Seljuk Silks from Raiy.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 37, no. 1, 1950, pp. 16–12.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 16-17; Reproduced: [unpaginated]",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141602"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.165.a",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:32:22.367000",
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    "sourceId": 126739,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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