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    "localId": "142304",
    "label": "Fragment of Inscription Band",
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    "id": "142304",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of Inscription Band",
    "date": "before 1966",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.135",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.135/1966.135_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 74.2 x 37.1 cm (29 3/16 x 14 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)"
    ],
    "accession": "1966.135"
}

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    "tec": "compound tabby on tabby ground; silk",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of Inscription Band, before 1966. Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Compound tabby on tabby ground; silk; overall: 74.2 x 37.1 cm (29 3/16 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg, 1966.135",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "two parallel inscription bands (1966.135 and 1982.299) with Kufic lettering in dark brown on a lighter brown ground run the warp direction of the cream colored textile with the lettering oriented at right angles to the warp: \". . . sallá Allah 'a[layhi wa-alihi] nabi(an in superscript) wa-bi-al-Qur'an kitab(an in superscript) wa-bi-al-Ka'bah [qiblat(an in superscript)] wa-bi-al-a' immah al-ithná 'ashar 'alayhim al-salam i[mam(an in superscript)]",
            "inscription_translation": ". . . God bless hi[m and his family] as a prophet, with the Kora[n] as a book, with the Ka'bah [as a qiblah] and with the twelve imams (upon them be peace) as an i[mam]."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“Annual Report for 1966.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 54, no. 6, 1967, pp. 159–197.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 177-178",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152162"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.135",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:17:50.018000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.135/1966.135_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 142304,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "compound tabby on tabby ground; silk",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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