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    "localId": "152365",
    "label": "Bowl with Incised Inscription",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "152365",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Incised Inscription",
    "date": "800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.21",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79936830"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glass"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.21/1985.21_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 4.8 x 9.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iraq, Abbasid Period, 9th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1985.21"
}

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    "tec": "glass",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Incised Inscription, 800s. Iraq, Abbasid Period, 9th Century. Glass; overall: 4.8 x 9.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1985.21",
    "collection": "Islamic Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "The inscription translates: \"Felicity, Glory, Happiness\"",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The incised inscription, which translates as \"Felicity, Glory, Happiness,\" is an early type of Kufic of which very few examples survive.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 171; Mentioned: p. 205, no. 144",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.21",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:52:32.274000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.21/1985.21_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 152365,
    "dept": "Islamic Art",
    "coll": "Islamic Art",
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}

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