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{
    "localId": "140087",
    "label": "Finger Ring",
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}

{
    "id": "140087",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Finger Ring",
    "description": "This silver signet ring depicts a kneeling figure facing left in a heavy robe, with hands outstretched and wearing a headdress. The figure is probably a priest or priestess making an offering at an unseen altar. Less skilled carving and the worn surface make the image difficult to interpret, especially the object in the figure’s right hand.",
    "date": "300s BCE or later",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.98",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756934"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.98/1963.98_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.98/1963.98_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.98/1963.98_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Bezel: 0.8 x 1.4 cm (5/16 x 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greece"
    ],
    "accession": "1963.98"
}

{
    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Finger Ring, 300s BCE or later. Greece. Silver; diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); bezel: 0.8 x 1.4 cm (5/16 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1963.98",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "When signet rings were stamped, the image would be reversed on the stamped surface.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1963.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 10 (1963): 263–94.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 292, no. 83",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.98",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:10:37.584000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.98/1963.98_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 140087,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "silver",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.98/1963.98_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "204502d31c3a9b7e"
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