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    "localId": "136406",
    "label": "Border of Heads and Palmettes from a Large Hanging",
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}

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    "id": "136406",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Border of Heads and Palmettes from a Large Hanging",
    "description": "Heads with caps facing front alternate with palmette (fan-shaped) leaves on a rich blue ground—a popular border design for luxurious woolen hangings whose field patterns often incorporated Iranian artistic features. An alternating red and white foliate (leaflike) design forms the secondary border.",
    "date": "500s CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.273",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.273/1960.273_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 76.2 x 26 cm (30 x 10 1/4 in.); Mounted: 89.2 x 34.3 cm (35 1/8 x 13 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period"
    ],
    "accession": "1960.273"
}

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    "tec": "Dyed wool, undyed linen; slit-tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Border of Heads and Palmettes from a Large Hanging\r\n, 500s CE. Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period. Dyed wool, undyed linen; slit-tapestry weave; overall: 76.2 x 26 cm (30 x 10 1/4 in.); mounted: 89.2 x 34.3 cm (35 1/8 x 13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club, 1960.273",
    "collection": "T - Coptic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 31",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n55"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 31",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n53"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 37",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n57"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
            "page_number": "p. 10-11"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.273",
    "creditline": "Gift of The Textile Arts Club",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:57:42.801000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.273/1960.273_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 136406,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Coptic",
    "med": "Dyed wool, undyed linen; slit-tapestry weave",
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