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    "localId": "154292",
    "label": "Panel with Hunters and Camel and Inscription",
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    "id": "154292",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Panel with Hunters and Camel and Inscription",
    "description": "On the upper part of the fragment, a kneeling archer aims to the left. On the opposite side of a tree, another archer aims toward a camel. The animal’s mouth is open with its tongue extended in surprise as a large feline pounces on its back. <br><br>The Arabic inscription along the left edge gives a spurious date and name of the purported maker.",
    "date": "1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.99",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.99/1988.99_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 101.5 x 43 cm (39 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran"
    ],
    "accession": "1988.99"
}

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    "tec": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Panel with Hunters and Camel and Inscription, 1900s. Iran. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 101.5 x 43 cm (39 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.99",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "along the left edge is an Arabic inscription in Kufic script: \"Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Nasir made it in the year three and two hundred [i.e. 818–819 CE].\"",
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        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The lower portion of the silk is woven with 21 parallel lines.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“The Year in Review for 1988.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 76, no. 2, 1989, pp. 30–75.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 194, p. 74; Reproduced: no. 194, p. 50",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.99",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:58:46.762000",
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    "coll": "T - Islamic",
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    "image_url": null
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