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{
    "localId": "154222",
    "label": "Spiral Armilla",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "154222",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Spiral Armilla",
    "date": "c. 1500 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.4",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756787"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.4/1988.4_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.4/1988.4_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.4/1988.4_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 16.5 x 12.1 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Central Europe, Bronze Age"
    ],
    "accession": "1988.4"
}

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    "tec": "bronze, wrought",
    "tombstone": "Spiral Armilla, c. 1500 BCE. Central Europe, Bronze Age. Bronze, wrought; overall: 16.5 x 12.1 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.4",
    "collection": "GR - European Bronze Age",
    "didYouKnow": "This armilla or arm ornament has a ridge along the spine, ending in a large spiral at one end.",
    "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. 4",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. \"Ancient East-European Bronzes.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 4 (1993): 122-26.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 123; Mentioned: p. 122-26",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161398"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned; P. 86; reproduced: P. 13, no. 3"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.4",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:58:26.113000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.4/1988.4_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 154222,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - European Bronze Age",
    "med": "bronze, wrought",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "cdbd6c8d525936b2"
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