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    "localId": "147821",
    "label": "Sleeve with tiraz",
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    "id": "147821",
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    "title": "Sleeve with tiraz",
    "date": "1045 – 1058",
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    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Etienne Combe, Jean Sauvaget, and Gaston Wiet. Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, volume 8, 1937.",
            "page_number": "2842"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bergsträsser, Gotthelf. Zur ältesten Geschichte der kufischen Schrift: zwei altarabische Grabsteine im Leipziger Kulturmuseum. Leipzig: Dt. Verein für Buchwesen und Schrifttum, 1919. volume II",
            "page_number": "p. 57b, no. 7, p. 58a"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Victoria and Albert Museum, and A. F. Kendrick. Catalogue of Muhammadan Textiles of the Medieval Period. London: Pub. under the authority of the Board of Education, 1924.",
            "page_number": "p. 7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 103, fig. 3.19; Mentioned: P. 92, 100, 103"
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