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    "localId": "152313",
    "label": "Frog-Shaped Guttus (Oil Flask)",
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}

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    "id": "152313",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Frog-Shaped Guttus (Oil Flask)",
    "description": "<em>Guttus</em> is a Latin word referring to a small vessel with vertical spout and ring handle, probably used for pouring small amounts of precious liquids. Often, mold-made ceramic <em>gutti </em>take the form of animals, with realistic painted decoration. Here, the lifelike frog features black stripes and alternating black and white circles.",
    "date": "300s BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.176",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Ceramic"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); Overall: 5.8 x 11.2 x 9.1 cm (2 5/16 x 4 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "South Italian, Apulian"
    ],
    "accession": "1985.176"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Frog-Shaped Guttus (Oil Flask), 300s BCE. South Italian, Apulian. Ceramic; diameter: 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); overall: 5.8 x 11.2 x 9.1 cm (2 5/16 x 4 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Keith P. Smith, 1985.176",
    "collection": "GR - South Italy",
    "didYouKnow": "The philosopher Plato famously compared the Greeks living along Mediterranean coastlines to “frogs around a pond.”",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 1002931",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/9A11E349-C135-40AE-B518-5C325EFC2C50"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. \"Two South Italian Vases: Fish Plate and Frog Bottle.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 10 (1986): 406-14.",
            "page_number": "Figs. 8-10.",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159967."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1985.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (1986)",
            "page_number": "p. 62, no. 9",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
            "page_number": "p. 55, pl. 100.4-5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Le sanglier et le satyre: vases plastiques hellénistiques de Grande Grèce et de Sicile.</em> Kilchberg/Zürich: Akanthus, 2015.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 116, no A339"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.176",
    "creditline": "Gift of Keith P. Smith",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:52:16.652000",
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    "sourceId": 152313,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - South Italy",
    "med": "ceramic",
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    "image_url": null
}

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