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    "localId": "153405",
    "label": "Fragment with Inscription",
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    "id": "153405",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with Inscription",
    "date": "before 1986",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.89",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 45.8 x 69.8 cm (18 1/16 x 27 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055) or Seljuq period (1037–1194)"
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    "accession": "1986.89"
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    "tec": "Silk: compound weave",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with Inscription, before 1986. Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055) or Seljuq period (1037–1194). Silk: compound weave; overall: 45.8 x 69.8 cm (18 1/16 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1986.89",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "The Arabic inscription framing the octagons reads:  \"la muhkam [?] bi-amr[?] al-'aysh al-ayyam fa'itah wal-dahr munsarif wal-'aysh munqarad (There is nothing firm [?] with respect to [?] life: the days go by, time passes, and life is cut off.\""
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 74, no. 2, 1987, pp. 38–79.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 48 and 74, no. 198; Reproduced: p. 48, no. 198",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:55:37.451000",
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