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    "localId": "154085",
    "label": "Axe Head",
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    "id": "154085",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Axe Head",
    "date": "900–600 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.2",
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    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756268"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Russia or Turkey, North-Central Caucasus, Kuban"
    ],
    "accession": "1988.2"
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    "tec": "bronze, cast in bi-part mold, polished, incised, and chased",
    "tombstone": "Axe Head, 900–600 BCE. Russia or Turkey, North-Central Caucasus, Kuban. Bronze, cast in bi-part mold, polished, incised, and chased; overall: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.2",
    "collection": "Near Eastern Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 7",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n22"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle, and Nino Urushadze. \"Animal Style Bronze Art and Its Closest Parallels: A Bronze Belt and Axe Head.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 5 (1994): 118-39.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 118-39",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161453"
        }
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:58:01.112000",
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    "dept": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
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