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    "localId": "153270",
    "label": "Hydria",
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    "id": "153270",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Hydria",
    "description": "This vessel gets its name from a shape of earthenware jar that was used to carry water. This bronze hydria was probably used not to carry water but as a cinerary urn (kalpis). The figure on the handle is the mythological siren, a human-headed bird.",
    "date": "425–400 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.23",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60762010"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.23/1986.23_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.23/1986.23_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.23/1986.23_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 41.6 x 38.4 cm (16 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greece"
    ],
    "accession": "1986.23"
}

{
    "tec": "bronze",
    "tombstone": "Hydria, 425–400 BCE. Greece. Bronze; overall: 41.6 x 38.4 cm (16 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1986.23",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "This bronze vessel was likely used as a funerary urn.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, no. 9",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Brody, Lisa R., Matthew Hargraves, and James Arnold Higginbotham. <em>Figures from the Fire: J. Pierpont Morgan's Ancient Bronzes at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art</em>. Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, London. 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 93"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.23",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:54:55.452000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.23/1986.23_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 153270,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "bronze",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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