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    "localId": "126802",
    "label": "Pendant with Scribe Figure",
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    "id": "126802",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pendant with Scribe Figure",
    "description": "The seated figure's high status is indicated by an elaborate headdress and jewelry, including earplugs, a necklace, and bracelets. Iin his right hand is a brush, perhaps for painting a book or mural.",
    "date": "c. 700–1000",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.198",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jade"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.198/1949.198_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.198/1949.198_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7.3 x 4.5 x 0.5 cm (2 7/8 x 1 3/4 x 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Mexico, Mixtec?, 8th-11th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1949.198"
}

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    "tec": "jade",
    "tombstone": "Pendant with Scribe Figure, c. 700–1000. Mexico, Mixtec?, 8th-11th Century. Jade; overall: 7.3 x 4.5 x 0.5 cm (2 7/8 x 1 3/4 x 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1949.198",
    "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.",
            "page_number": "N3340",
            "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/11196/rec/1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Pre-Columbian Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>37, no. 1 (January 1950): 10-11, 14-16.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 11; Mentioned: p. 14",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141601"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.198",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:32:43.184000",
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    "sourceId": 126802,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Mesoamerica",
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    "image_url": null
}

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