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    "localId": "150515",
    "label": "Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull",
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    "id": "150515",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull",
    "description": "The underside of this figure is incised with two running animals to make a seal; when pressed into a soft material, it leaves an impression.",
    "date": "c. 3250 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.7",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2.7 x 4.7 x 3.9 cm (1 1/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Iraq, Early Bronze Age I (c. 3300–3000 BCE)"
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    "accession": "1981.7"
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    "tombstone": "Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull, c. 3250 BCE. Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Iraq, Early Bronze Age I (c. 3300–3000 BCE). Limestone with black stone inlaid eyes; overall: 2.7 x 4.7 x 3.9 cm (1 1/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Fay Ratner and the Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1981.7",
    "collection": "Near Eastern Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1981.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 2 (February 1982): 39–82.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 42; Mentioned: p. 78, no. 5",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159758"
        }
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